Morphology of the heart in hypertrophy.
Cardiac hypertrophy involves not only an increase in heart size but progressive, initially subtle, structural changes in muscle cells. The ability to describe these changes in detail has contributed greatly to our understanding of their possible functional significance. Structural and functional correlations in the evolving progression of cardiac hypertrophy are examined.
D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000473:pathology*; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009206:Myocardium / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009210:Myofibrils / Q000648:ultrastructure