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What causes enlarged right venticle?
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Multiple things: High pressure such as blood pressure but also stiff lungs in a smoker can cause condition called cor pulmonale. Also leak from l side of heart to right side like "hole in heart" between the ventricles can also do that as well.
Answered 8/27/2013
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