Considering that heart attacks are the leading cause of death in Australia, it’s important you know what the symptoms are so it can be picked up early. Although it can be a dramatic event, many patients ignore their symptoms for a long time because it isn’t severe enough – sometimes leaving it too late.
Hypertrophy technically refers to each of the heart cells growing larger in size, but generally the term is used referring to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) means that the heart muscle has become thicker.
Cardiomegaly means that your heart is larger than normal. Often, it is a term used to describe the heart’s appearance on a chest X-ray.
We all hear about heart attacks. Something happens to a person’s heart, and we know it’s deadly. But what’s actually happening?
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