The left ventricular myocytes hypertrophy in order to gain contractile strength to overcome this increased afterload and distribute the wall stress throughout a larger mass thus decreasing oxygen ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy can be diagnosed on ECG with good specificity. When the myocardium is hypertrophied, there is a larger mass of myocardium for electrical activation to pass through ...

And we have developed considerably larger brains. These changes to humans ... Using cardiac ultrasound, we discovered that the left ventricle—the heart's main pumping chamber—in chimpanzees ...