Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the ...

Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI Ejection fraction (EF) measures how well the heart pumps blood. A normal EF is 55% to 70%, meaning the heart pumps out at least half of the blood in its ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH ... electrical activity takes longer to traverse throughout the whole heart, thus the duration of the QRS complex may be widened. This is referred to as "LVH ...

A left ventricular aneurysm can form after a transmural myocardial infarction and involves dilation of the left ventricular wall in an abnormal fashion. Most commonly, the apex of the heart is ...

By inflating and deflating in rhythm with the heartbeat, the IABP assists with blood flow to the heart muscle and takes some of the strain off the left ventricle. Through this testing, the ...

When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the ...

Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...