Left ventricular hypertrophy

Left ventricular hypertrophy
A heart with left ventricular hypertrophy in short-axis view
Specialty	Cardiology
Complications	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Heart failure[1]
Diagnostic method	Echocardiography, cardiovascular MRI[1]
Differential diagnosis	Athletic heart syndrome

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is thickening of the heart muscle of the left ventricle of the heart, that is, left-sided ventricular hypertrophy and resulting increased left ventricular mass.