Cardiac hypertrophy

What is cardiac hypertrophy (also known as hypertrophy) The size of our heart is related to height and weight, and its volume is similar to the size of our fists. From the chest X-ray, we can see that the heart is to the left of the middle of the chest. The width of a normal heart accounts for less than 50% of the width of the chest (heart-lung ratio). Because chest X-ray measurement of the cardiopulmonary ratio is often affected by the insufficient inspiratory volume of the subject, sometimes it causes relative cardiac hypertrophy, in fact, the heart is not hypertrophic; the level of the electrocardiogram can also tell us whether there is cardiac hypertrophy, A high radio wave usually indicates a possible cardiac hypertrophy. To accurately measure the size of the heart, a cardiac ultrasound is a very good tool. It can measure the size of each cavity of the heart (such as left and right atriums, left and right ventricles), and it can also measure the thickness of the left ventricle muscles, of course. It can also tell us by the way the function of the heart valve, whether the heart muscle has lesions, and the function of the left ventricle.

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