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| According to Canadian researchers, LVDD is an impairlnent in the relaxation phase of the heart's left ventricle, tile main pumping chamber. [Editor's note: This is the backward leaking of blood in the heart from the left ventricle (lower chamber) to the left atrium (upper chamber). The walls of the heart's left ventricle become abnormally thickened (hypertrophy). |
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left ventricle - the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta