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Cardiovascular Research 2003 60(3):463-464; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2003.10.015
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Copyright © 2003, European Society of Cardiology

Do we understand why regression of left ventricular hypertrophy is beneficial?

Elieser Kaplinsky

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Received 13 October 2003; revised 13 October 2003; accepted 13 October 2003

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See article by Botchway et al. [12] (pages 510–517) in this issue.

Hypertrophy is the mechanism by which muscle, any muscle, copes with persistent and repetitive overloads. Any increase in cardiac chamber radius (r) and/or pressure (p) will result in a proportional increase in total wall tension (T) according to the ideal Laplace formula, T = pr. The true load on the individual myocardial fibers can be appreciated by dividing the tension by the width of the chamber wall (h): Ts=(pr)/h. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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