Patient S., ** years old, has been suffering from hypertension for 15 years. The ECG shows signs of hypertrophy of the left ventricle of the heart. Definition of hypertrophy; stages of hypertrophy development; types of hypertrophy.
ANSWER: an increase in the heart or its departments due to an increase in the size of cardiomyocytes; the stage of emergency hyperfunction, the stage of exhaustion and cardiosclerosis, the stage of stable hyperfunction; concentric, eccentric.