enlarged heart

As the name suggests, enlarged heart is to grow the entire heart. It detects a physical examination, X-rays or other imaging tests.

An enlarged heart may be due to thickening of the heart muscle to increased workload. (This increased workload can cause heart valve disease or high blood pressure, for example.) This is called hypertrophy (hi-PER'tro-Fe), concerning the enlargement of an organ or tissue due to the size cells increased.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is the medical term for enlargement of the left ventricle. (The left ventricle is the main pumping chamber). Hypertrophy also occurs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hi "by Kar TRO'fik" de-o-mi-la-OP'ah). heart hypertrophy can also be a dilation (expansion) of the heart due to damage that weakens the heart muscle. Examples include heart attacks, congestive heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy.