Background:Epidemiological data suggest increased risk of sudden death during and immediately after hemodialysis. Microvolt T-wave alternans (mTWA) is an electrocardiogram (ECG) measure of abnormal ...

A new study reveals that the predictive power of key inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein, shifts fundamentally ...

Ventricular repolarization (VR) is a crucial step in cardiac electrical activity because it corresponds to a recovery period setting the stage for the next heart contraction. Small perturbations of ...

Repolarization dispersion has been linked to echocardiographic measures of diastolic dysfunction in past research, and a recent study found it potentially indicative of pulmonary arterial hypertension ...

Background EKG analysis investigating the impact of the ethnicity on cardiac adaptation to exercise has shown a higher presence of abnormalities, including marked repolarization changes, and signs of ...

WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes hypertrophy ...