title: Volume overload.
abstract: Structural cardiac volume overload comprises a group of heterogeneous diseases, each creating a nearly unique set of loading conditions on the left ventricle and/or right ventricle. In turn, the heart responds to each with unique patterns of remodeling, leading to both adaptive and maladaptive consequences. An understanding of these different patterns of hypertrophy and/or remodeling should be useful in developing strategies for the timing and correction of cardiac volume overload.
authors: Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. blaseanthony.carabello@med.va.gov
authors: Blase A
authors: BA
authors: Carabello
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002306:Cardiac Volume; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D017725:Ventricular Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*