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Essay On Left Ventricle Hypertrophy

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Introduction:
Left ventricle hypertrophy can cause congestive heart failure to the patient. Common cause of the disease is due to the hypertension. If left ventricle hypertrophy is untreated, it will easily causes congestive heart failure.

Abstract:
The reasons that why I setup this hypothesis is because the patient have chest pain, this pain may come from congestive heart failure. Besides, the patient has medical history, such as hypertension and diabetes which increase the chance of chronic heart failure. Moreover, the patient suffered from chest discomfort during midnight so he may suffer from chronic heart failure which easily exists when lying down at rest.

Mechanism of left ventricle hypertrophy:
First, left ventricle hypertrophy occurred due to the chronic hypertension or the pressure, it may reflect the physiological adaptation to increase the workload of the heart. Since the patient has hypertension which increases the afterload of the arteries which can lead the stroke volume decreases and the cardiac output decreases. To compensate this situation, heart rate will further increases. Therefore, the time for filling blood in left ventricle will decreases. In order to compensate the situation, left ventricle wall will get thicker and try to …show more content…

Besides, left ventricle hypertrophy can also affect the main pumping chamber with thickening of the septum which restricts the blood flow via the aorta to the rest of body. The obstruction decreases coronary perfusion pressure and decreases the cardiac output. Shortness of breath and chest pain are the common signs of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Most importantly, it may cause heart failure. In most cases, heart failure is due to diastolic dysfunction. This obstruction increased the systolic pressure of left ventricle and increased end-diastolic pressure with no increasing of stroke

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