How to Use ventricular in a Sentence

ventricular

adjective
  • Madelyn was born with a ventricular septal defect, a hole in her heart.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • One of the devices caused a ventricular rupture, or tear in the heart muscle, that also required surgery.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Small ventricular septal defects can close on their own without treatment.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Ejection fraction is a measurement of how well the left ventricular compartment of the heart can squeeze.
    — Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The sound waves pass through the muscle walls and provide a gauge of left ventricular mass (LVM).
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2016
  • If the hole is located in the heart's lower chambers, it's known as a ventricular septal defect.
    — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024
  • The doctors commanded him to stop working, and he was put on a left ventricular assist device to keep his heart beating.
    — Valerie June, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2017
  • This hospital is one of the world's most prolific centers in terms of number of ventricular ablations performed each year.
    — Sacramento Bee, 6 May 2024
  • But then the pains started up again, and doctors found arrhythmias, or irregular rhythms, in the atrial and ventricular areas of his heart.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And ventricular tachycardias can be caused by other health problems that doctors would be able to diagnose and identify.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • About one in four experienced episodes of ventricular tachycardia, a rapid heart rhythm that can become life-threatening if sustained.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The slightest movement can send a victim's heart muscle into wild spasms of ventricular fibrillation.
    — Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The cause was ventricular fibrillation, said his wife, Debra Wood.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • None of the patients in the trial had a left ventricular ejection fraction below 40%, a sign of potential heart failure.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Given that the ventricles power the blood through the body, ventricular fibrillation is fatal.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
  • This can result in a dangerous type of irregular heartbeat called ventricular fibrillation and lead to death.
    — Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Langston, 59, suffered a ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm that can be triggered by a heart attack.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • On a daily basis, people with ventricular tachycardia could have no symptoms at all, or have frequent feelings of palpitations.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Yet the patients still were having thousands of episodes of ventricular tachycardia, during which a heart may beat 200 times a minute as blood pressure plummets.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This is not the first time an association has been found between Covid-19 and right ventricular enlargement.
    — Michael Nedelman and Mark Lieber, CNN, 18 May 2020
  • Sometimes, the cause of ventricular fibrillation is unknown, the medical center said.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Wasfy described seeing ventricular septal defects in the intensive care unit this summer, which can occur when a heart attack goes untreated, resulting in a hole in the heart.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Westaby himself is a pioneer in the development and use of implantable ventricular assist devices — little machines that pump blood for a failing heart.
    — Rachel Pearson, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • ICDs are implanted in people with ventricular arrhythmias, which can cause sudden cardiac arrest.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The irregular heartbeat — ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) — prevents blood from pumping to the brain causing a person to faint or sudden cardiac death.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Now, the adrenaline was mimicking the effects seen in sudden cardiac death, with ventricular fibrillation and rapid failure of cardiac function.
    — Time, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Additionally, in the real world, holes left by ruptured ventricles can be larger and more irregular than the 8-mm ventricular hole that the patch covered.
    — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2025
  • He was diagnosed with left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, a rare, congenital heart defect.
    — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • One participant experienced premature ventricular contractions -- extra beats in one chamber of the heart -- at the outset of the study and during the study.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • The Mayo Clinic's website defines cardiomegaly as an enlarged heart, and ventricular hypertrophy as a thickening of the heart walls.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024

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