High blood pressure, which can put stress on the heart walls.

Saw him gently pull it out of the heart wall.

Damage enough of the heart wall that way, it no longer functions as a pump.

Check the thickness and movement of the heart wall.

A thicker heart wall means higher blood pressure, "so that is an interesting finding," says Baker.

Initially, the changes made to the heart wall (myocardium) are beneficial.

The third type of nephrocyte is attached to the heart wall by connective ligaments.

The disease causes thickening of the heart wall, which makes the heart pump less efficiently.

An echocardiogram shows poor motion of the heart wall, due to a stiff heart muscle.

The heart wall thickens, so the amount of blood that the chamber can hold may actually decrease despite the increased overall heart size.

The study is the first to find a link between thickening of the heart wall and the risk of stroke,...

The second cath could be where she slips in stem cells, and they repaired the injured heart wall."

An earlier study found that couples in good marriages had thinner heart walls than those in bad marriages.

Courson, now 33 years old, is suffering from a weakened heart wall and is waiting for a heart donor.

This knowledge allowed Petre to use innovative methods during construction such as pouring heart walls with concrete and then facing with stone.

Results of the simulation technique will be shown in computer-generated movies demonstrating the movement of blood, the valves and the heart wall muscles.

The procedure is used to detect structural and functional abnormalities of the heart wall, the heart valves and the heart's large blood vessels.

But it said that treatment with anti-hypertension drugs had lowered his blood pressure and that the thickening of his heart walls has been reversed.

Though it found that her heart wall was abnormally thin, the coroner's office could rule only that the death was due to unknown "natural causes."

It is given intravenously as soon as possible after the onset of a heart attack to dissolve clots in the arteries of the heart wall.

Heart wall thickness can be measured by ultrasound; computed tomography is more accurate, though it is more expensive and has risks of exposure to radiation.

Inactivation of mitochondrial TrxR2 in mice results in thinning of the ventricular heart walls and embryonic death.

I won't know the full extent of the injury to the heart wall until we get an echocardiogram, but for sure it won't have the same strength as before."

Taking coenzyme Q-10 by mouth seems to decrease the thickness of the heart wall, and decrease symptoms of shortness of breath and fatigue.

The echo can detect problems with the heart such as enlargement, abnormalities in motion of the heart wall, blood clots, and heart valve abnormalities.