Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Revisited: Cell and Matrix Expansion Have Disease-Specific Relationships.

The article offers information on left ventricular hypertrophy which is a common pathway in health and disease caused due to cellular hypertrophy and expansion of extracellular matrix. It mentions role of myocardial biopsy in indentifying extracellular matrix expansion from cellular hypertrophy and disarray and infiltration. It also states the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance to evaluate patients with aortic stenosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis.