Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Ventricular hypertrophy
HP:0001714
What it means
Enlargement of the cardiac ventricular muscle tissue with increase in the width of the wall of the ventricle and loss of elasticity. Ventricular hypertrophy is clinically differentiated into left and right ventricular hypertrophy.
Rare diseases that can present with this9
Very common80–99%
3Sometimes5–29%
5- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, severe infantile form
- Facial dysmorphism-developmental delay-behavioral abnormalities syndrome due to 10p11.21p12.31 microdeletion
- Gaucher disease-ophthalmoplegia-cardiovascular calcification syndrome
- Generalized arterial calcification of infancy
- Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
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