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Assessing hypertrophy of cardiac chambers using electrocardiography (ECG) is a reliably screening tool and a frequent indication for performing this low-cost study with reasonable accuracy. The detection of hypertrophy of a cardiac chamber or combination of chambers is a valuable tool in arriving to diagnosis of heart disease even before more expensive investigative studies are used. Furthermore, monitoring chamber hypertrophy through ECG can be easily performed.
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L’Italien, K., Khalid, O. (2016). Cardiac Chamber Enlargement and Hypertrophy. In: Abdulla, Ri., Bonney, W., Khalid, O., Awad, S. (eds) Pediatric Electrocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26258-1_5
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