Left ventricular hypertrophy

[citation needed] Long-standing mitral insufficiency also leads to LVH as a compensatory mechanism.

[5] The commonly used method to diagnose LVH is echocardiography, with which the thickness of the muscle of the heart can be measured.

The thickness of the left ventricle as visualized on echocardiography correlates with its actual mass.

MRI based measurement is considered the “gold standard” for left ventricular mass,[9] though is usually not readily available for common practice.

[16] Patients with LVH may have to participate in more complicated and precise diagnostic procedures, such as echocardiography or cardiac MRI.

Left ventricular hypertrophy with secondary repolarization abnormalities as seen on ECG
Histopathology of (a) normal myocardium and (b) myocardial hypertrophy. Scale bar indicates 50 μm.
Gross pathology of left ventricular hypertrophy. Left ventricle is at right in image, serially sectioned from apex to near base.