[Morphometric study of the hypertrophied heart]

Diagnostic potentials of morphometric methods in studies of right-ventricle and left-ventricle hypertrophy of the heart were analysed. Different cardiometric methods were found to give dissimilar information on the quantitative changes in parts of the hypertrophic heart. Composite morphometry using the methods of individual weighing, external-internal, planimetric-weight, and histometric determinations followed by their mathematical treatment was found to reveal the dynamics of the quantitative parameters of hyperfunctioning heart parts most objectively.