Enlarged heart - what does that mean? 

Elasticity! I've been trying to figure out what people mean by valves "wearing out" and you just answered it. Thank you sir you're a life saver.

My grandma has an enlarged heart , I am very worried about her. Please keep her in your prayers 🙏🏽💕

Thank you! On my way to take my mother to see her cardiologist after being told she has an enlarged heart. Prayers

Thank you doc! I`ve been told I have an enlargend heart but noone have told me what it really is. Good information.

Thank for this information, my Dad died when I was 9 years old. My mother said he had an enlarged heart and the his valves had become too large, a surgeon her in Salt Lake City, Utah tried to help him but he died shortly after walking up from the surgery. The Doctor said his heart was the size of a football. Please don't delay seeing your doctor for this condition. My father was turned away from the Mayo Clinic because they said they could not help him. A local Dr. here in Utah performed a valve replacement but my father could not survive the second surgery.

Thanks Doc….. l feel much better since I watched this video 🙏🙏

I was diagnosed with an enlarged heart last Thursday after a stress test on the treadmill and an ecosonogram right afterwards but my cardio doctor didn't really explain it too well. He just doubled my bp medication. Metoprolol from 50 to 100. I was so worried about it but I feel a little better after I saw your video, thanks.

I’ve been told yesterday that I have a enlarged heart, I am so worried

Thank you so much for all of your information! You answered a lot of my worries and explained a lot of questions!

Thanks Doctor you have really cured my anxiety by your soothing words..I was worried when I was told that I have enlarged artial something..I anxiety because of this

You share outstanding information thanks

Very informative video.

You look great doc! Handsome and brilliant! Most of all calm and reassuring. Your approach is a god send. Thank you!

Thank you so much just told today my heart is enlarged from an xray.He's referring me to a cardiologist you have put my mind at ease.I'm 67 no high blood pressure but over wait and adopted so I have no history. Mama Long Greenville Tx

Thanks a lot for the information Doctor

Thank you for the knowledge

Thanks for your advice

Very informative . Nice video Doctor. Thank you very much.

Dr sanjay gupta sir I have enlighten my mind for the second time with your very useful explanation if enlarged heart and advice to follow thanks 25/06/2021

Thank you for your explanation. I had a ct scan done today and saw the results. I don’t see the doctor until two weeks from now.

Thank you very much that was very interesting and helpful 😊

Dr gupta sir very vital information on enlarged heart like it 17/11/2019

Thank you so much You put me at ease You are. God Sent for the likes of myself that cannot get my cardiologist to explain anything to me I like to take charge of my own health SELF HEALING works for me I am in my 80's and treated like I am brain dead Not The Case So I thank you Doctor Sending you Blessings we need doctors like you for the future

Wonderful info.....wish you were In USA. Gods guidance.

another great presentation thanks

It’s so good to listen you

Thank you Doctor

Thank you!

Thank you so much for your clear explanation and my worries for my mother not only we have xray it does not mean that my mother has a sure bigger heart.. you give me positive hope. Accourding to my mother she feel ok no difficulty in breathin it almost 3 to 4 years that they said my mother have a problem in hearth for god is so good until now she ok so fine...

Thank you very much for the detailed description, im NOT as worried as I have been all night since we got the call from my mom doctor earlier. Thank you again you put my mind at ese a little!

Good morning Thank you so much !!!!!!

This to u very much...a lot of help

Thank you for the information ❤

My doctor just told me that i have it....but he never explain nothing even if i asked....i will look for another doctor...that can explain ...like you do... Thank you...you make me feel better...

Thanks doc I am relieved

Dear Doctor Sanjay: Please consider moving to Perth, Western Australia, to live and practice your Cardiology. We enjoy sunny weather, clean air, plenty of space (not overcrowded), affordable, spacious housing, plenty of healthy fruit and vegetables, and good schools for sending your children to.

Thank you

Many thanks doctor!!!

Thanku for the info

Thank you Doctor. ❤

Thank you very much Arthur from Cape Town

Thank you very much Dr. Gupta.

What a lovely explanation. Just been told my heart is mildly enlarged .I'm arranging to have an echo done 🙏🙏

My Mamu’s 11 month old baby is in the hospital right now and has an enlarged heart. Please pray for her. They don’t want to do heart transplant. Please recommend other options.

Thanks

Thank you from the bottom of my heart lol seriously Thank you....

Sir it is vary informative i am a pharmacist

Thanks sir for this video. What we have to do if we had found enerlaged heart

It is ashame the NHS is finished and failing the people who fund it through taxation - as this explanation is excellent! Enjoy it whilst it's still free - before the pay wall kicks in!

Dear Dr Gupta, Thanks for your wonderful video. Does enlarged heart affect the resting heart rate? If so, how does it affect the resting heart rate? Best regards.

Thanks Dr. It helps

Hello, I have been on amitriptyline 150 mg for vestibular migraine/ perilymph fistula. I have been having shortness of breath when working out and when lying done. Can amitriptyline cause problems with my heart and can a heart problem cause shortness of breath?. Thankyou.

Thank you Dr Gupta it's very informative video.You always put my mind in a right place .God bless you 🙏😊

I begin to believe that many, maybe most people, do not want details on their condition. There are, however analyticals who understand physics, maybe biology, electronics, mechanical, process control and automation, and troubleshooting. Decades ago a physical (a GP I guess) suggested I had an enlarged heart but I was young and it was lamely dismissed by the first cardiologist (my parents' doctor) I ever had. That one looked at an x-ray and held up his fist and rotated it, obviously implying the old "rule of thumb" we seemed to hear that one's heart should be about as large as one's fist. I left it at that. Eventually I left that one because he would become irritated when I had questions and brought in things that I was trying to reconcile (build into my mental model) for my understanding. He felt that I was questioning his evaluation. This occurred more than once, not discussing me, rather Mom and Dad. I have had my current cardiologist for I guess 30 or more years. He told me I had an enlarged heart. Of course I asked where and how, and whether it was as compared to prior Echo Cardiograms and other tests or applying "standards" to my most recent echo. He started with saying it was the "muscle" so I asked, "the wall or septum" to which he said responded to the effect of "septum, well actually the whole muscle". Another visit he pointed to a drawing, indicating my upper right, quadrant that I inferred as possibly the descending aorta. The next time he said it was on top of the heart in a more or less horizontal part of the vessel. Such vague and conflicting information is what bugs me. I expect other factors are involved, such as what I did at work and play as I was growing up, ancestral lineage perhaps, heart rhythm and rates, blood pressure, responses to stress, and many others. I'll get another to look and hopefully find one who will explain my specific condition as you have so well in general here. Thanks!

Hello Dr. My BF was just diagnosed with “giant atria” after an ablation for Atrial Flutter. This procedure was successful but can you speak to what this new diagnosis means? Can he take lifestyle measures to help with this?

The doctor just told me I have this problem... but didn’t see a cardiologist yet .... I’m scared

Thankyou!!

Thanks for putting my MIND @ ease.. take my b/p meds on a timely basis.. Thx for sharing.. Just diagnosed w/ enlarged ❤.June 12/24

hello Doc, i lately experience palpitations all the time throughout the day. I just feel like my body is vibrating, sometimes it feels like some kind of energy within me, i can even feel my tongue vibrating as if some form energy.... what do you think could be the cause of such a feeling?

Thank You❤

Hi I have an enlarged right atrium through exercise is this something to worry about?

How long will it take for people with high blood pressure to develop enlarged heart?

So I guess I misinterpreted the grinch. “His ❤️ grew 2 sizes that day”. 😆

I had spikes on EKG, had b/p problems for years. Any recommendations? Exercise?

Thanks for info...I was worrying over something when I have no symptoms of being told some medical things by a practitioner...inwill follow up though cause I'm getting older

hi Doc I was Diagnoised with an enlarged heart the other day after ECG it does scare me but thank you for your video. I am still waiting on more test results. my dr got a blood test urine and chest x-ray. I am scared a bit and just feel sick in my stomach. I also found out my family history has Marfan syndrome but I am a big boy and only 35 years old. can you talk about Marfan syndrome sometime

I was told by my doctor after doing a ecg this that my heart is enlarged so I will be doing another this which is a scan 24 hour holter in March so this video gives me hope not to fret about a enlarged heart that's diagnosed by ecg

Doc may i ask if enlarged heart will go back to its original size?

If you have an enlarged heart what pains do you feel? Abdominal pains and all round to the back?

I'm 44 and just found out I have a "mildly enlarged heart". It was by accident during a stomach CT with contrast. Now what? I've felt bad for years with exercise tolerance. I requested a stress test a year ago and the doctor basically said no. Which I found odd as I've had such had problems with long Covid. I've also had several syncope episodes. many Doctors in the US are horrible. I wish I could see you as my doctor

God bless

Doctor, last month I made a general health check up and my treadmill ECG says that I have a P pulmonale wave which may be suggestive of right atrial enlargement, which means that my right atrial is bigger. Is this serious? I’m worried

What about people who constantly exercise like athletes?

Hi I have lvht and I have 3 valves that regurgitate. Should I be seeing a cardiologist?? And is there any treatment that can help me?

Thanks for this very helpful video. I was told I have an enlarged heart when I got a chest X-ray for COVID in November. I’m scheduled for cardio gram but it won’t be till March. Trying not to worry, and telling myself it’s nothing, so this was very reassuring. Thanks again

My mom took the vaccine and she's in the hospital right now enlarged heart fluid around the heart and all of a sudden she has mitral stenosis of this from taking the vaccine

I just recently had a chest X-ray echo and TEE. X-ray showed cardiac silhouette as enlarged and the echo and TEE showed my left and right atrium being enlarged with increased systolic pulmonary pressure. After those tests I had a right sided ablation for aflutter/afib and my Ep said one of my pulmonary veins was enlarged. This was all in May 2018. In February 2018 I had a PVI. After that ablation I became short of breath during any slight activity. Also after my last ablation in May 2018 the shortness of breath has been worse. However in November of 2017 I had an ablation for atrial tachycardia. I also had an echo and at this time my echo was completely normal. How can all this happen in six months? Was all the new findings possibly due to the PVI? I’m not getting any answers from my doctors. They are saying the bilateral atrium enlarged is from me having afib. However the only time I have been in afib is during an ablation. I know this because I also have a loop recorder so I know I wasn’t in afib any other times but during ablations. Also I have a hole in my septum that I also believe was from the ablation and doctor is trying to say I was born with it. Which I know I wasn’t as I was tested as a child. Could all this be causing the shortness of breath? My pulmonologist thinks I may have PH. Could that be the cause of the bilateral atrium enlargement and the increased pulmonary pressure?

Sir ecg shows right ventricular hypertrophy and trop I is 0.72

Can you please do a video on Enlarged Aorta?

Can hawthorn help for this condition? Thanks

Hello What does it mean when the ekg shows possible left atrial enlargement with pronged QT as compared with another EKG from a year ago. I have a history of PAC’s PVC’s but recently went to E R because I am noticing them when I begin exercising. This is new for me- when I had them in the past, nothing in particular brought them on. Now I am concerned that exercising is making a possible condition worse. I am very active bike 30+ miles a day and hike at our place in Colorado which is very high altitude. Any advice? PS- I consulted with you online a few years ago about my palpitations.

The eco showed i have right side enlarged heart. Can you Talk about that? ThankYOU

My hr is very slow. I woke up gasping for air then took my heart rate. It came up as 48. Should I be concerned? I'm 25 years old, smoker

can an endone (or varied drugs) overdose cause enlarged heart?

Does a-fib long term (10 years) weaken the heart?

I'm very very concerned and my cardiologist won't explain to me what's going on. I'm 61-years old and I've already had two major heart attacks one in 2012 and another in 2014 they had to place two-stents in my Right Coronary Artery and I've had extreme high blood pressure for three-years my recent blood pressure was 167 over 110 and A stress test was done on July 28th and it showed that my right and left Atrial are enlarged along with hypertrophy along with 35% plaque build up in my left ventricle AND I also have an inferior scar on my heart from possible heart attacks that I didn't even know that I've had I'VE BEEN TAKING HEART MEDICATIONS SUCH AS CARVEDILOL BUT THEY DON'T HELP PLEASE SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN

I’m so worried! I was told I have an enlarged heart and I’m only 31! Doctor started me on BP meds! I was already in the process of losing weight and eating healthier but this really scared me. Doctor said it could be reversed. So I’m keeping that hope. I’m trying my best not to worry.

I need help. Dr told me after lots of tests heart is too big. He prescribed latex 2x daily limited to 1.5 leters liquid. Eating drinking seems blocked breathing difficulties when lying? Tightness in chest is usually caused by gas bloating? Oxygen shortage?

RIP Rich Piana.

Would you discuss a tortuous aorta? After an x-ray for a rib fracture, I just found out I have this. Yike!

People please take b vitamins for your heart also selenium, magnesuim and most important TUARINE, please research these

pls doc how can I contact you, I m Nigerian

My sister's heart is huge, and they did some studies for her and they told her that her heart is almost to her stomach and pushing the ribs... is anything that can be done for her or is too far gone... I know is hard to talk about this because is so sad, and we (The family) never knew it was to that point, she was born with a heart murmur so we thought it was that, but it is not... what can be done in her case? We need help fast...

Hi... I'm suffering from acute or severe hypertension and yesterday after xrays I've received the news that I've an enlarged heart...🙄

I've been told by doctors that my heart is pushing one of my lungs I'm going to have echocardiogram

Where is your clinic located?

Good day doctor, i always watch your videos regarding PVCs everynight and you are the reason sometimes ease my worries. I was suffering with palpitations these previous months. I decided to go to the doctor and I had all my test including holters and echo. After all the test, I was diagnosed with cardiac arrythmia - PAC and PVC. My doctor suspects that the cause of my PVCs is because i have a dilated ventricle and dilated atrium (moderate enlarge heart). I have high cholesterol and triglycerides too. My doctor gave me (metoprolol) beta blockers 25mg and was divided into 4 (6mg per day) for my palpitations and in 3 weeks of medications nothing was change and i feel its getting worse day by day. Is this can be cure? How worse is my heart? Is my enlarge heart reversible and can back to normal? Is this an early sign of cardiomyopathy? I so worried right now because my PVC don't stop. Please answer me, i cannot enjoy my life now, i was in strict diet and avoid all triggers but nothing has changed. I want to go back on my normal life please HELP me

I had 3 ECG and all was normal then a chest x ray and was normal then a blood test and all was normal then a echocardiogram and the cardiology said that my heart is little enlarge,im so scare i dont know what to think

My MRI showed my RA to be 28cm2, normal is stated as

Hi Dr. In my last echo my left atrium was 4.6cm. I have afib and awaiting an ablation