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In this video, you are going to learn how to detect hypertrophy of the heart chambers on ECG. Hypertrophy of the heart chambers refers to an abnormal increase in the size of one or more of the four chambers of the heart. The heart has two upper chambers called atria and two lower chambers called ventricles.
Hypertrophy can occur in any of these chambers, but most commonly it affects the ventricles. Hypertrophy is the heart's way of adapting to the increased workload. While this adaptation is initially a compensatory mechanism, chronic hypertrophy can lead to various complications, including impaired heart function, increased risk of arrhythmias, and heart failure.
The most common causes of hypertrophy are: Hypertension, Valvular heart disease such as aortic stenosis, mitral valve stenosis, mitral regurgitation etc, lung diseases, and pulmonary hypertension.

To diagnose hypertrophy of the heart chambers we can use various methods, but we usually detect hypertrophy of heart chambers in outpatient conditions using clinical examination and ECG. That's why this lesson is of great importance for you. Here you will find the ECG characteristics for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular Hypertrophy, Left Atrial Enlargement, and Right Atrial Enlargement.


I hope that you find this video helpful, as well as the channel as a whole.


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