what is ventricular hypertrophy?

Answer 1

The muscle inside of the ventricle becomes thickened this can be caused by high blood pressure.

Answer 2

The ventricles are the larger pumping chambers of the heart and the left ventricle has 3 times the thickness of the right in a normal healthy adult. Ventricular hypertrophy represents an increase in the size rather than the number of muscle cells resulting in an increase in thickness of the wall of the ventricle as well as an increase in the mass (weight) of the ventricle. Initially such a change compensates for a problem such as the difficulty of pumping blood when there is hypertension as the increased muscle mass leads to a more forceful contraction but eventually hypertrophy always leads to reduced ventricular function. Young athletes often display ventricular hypertrophy. The presence of left ventricular hypertrophy is strongly correlated with premature cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke. The most common cause of left ventricular hypertrophy is hypertension while the most common cause of right ventricular hypertrophy is left ventricular hypertrophy. If you need additional information please let me know.

Answer 3

Ventricular hypertrophy comes under heart muscle disease.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
The heart muscle thickens greatly without any obvious cause. In most cases the disease is hereditary, resulting from a gene abnormality.
The disease is thought to affect at least 125,000 people in the UK.
The muscle mass of the left ventricle is larger than it should be, causing the mitral valve to touch the dividing wall between the two sides of the heart - the septum.
The effect of the narrowing of the passage is to obstruct the blood flow out of the heart. The valve may leak.
The muscle is stiff and has difficulty relaxing, increasing the amount of pressure required to expand when blood flows into the heart. This reduces the blood holding capacity of the heart.
Please see the web pages for more details on Heart muscle disease and Hypertensive heart disease.

Answer 4

Ventricular hypertrophy (especially left ventricular hypertrophy) is thickening of the heart muscle in response to increased demand for work. LVH arises in high blood pressure for example. The hypertrophy is an appropriate overgrowth to cope with the stresses placed upon it. However, LVH can lead to a reduction in the efficiency of the heart muscle.

Answer 5

hypertrophy is where something grows but it is physiologic. for example a body builder. The ventricle of the heart can enlarge like this usually in response to a harder workout---like hypertension.

get it checked and get your bp under control

Answer 6

It is a physiological response that enables the heart to adapt to increased stress; however, the response can become pathological and ultimately lead to a deterioration in function.

For more detail see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_hypertrophy

Answer 7

Enlargement of the ventricles of the heart. See link below.

Answer 8

No idea, but search NHS direct website