1 This can cause an enlarged left ventricle due to weakening of the heart muscle. 2  Rare diseases that can affect your heart, such as amyloidosis. 3  Amyloidosis is a condition in which abnormal proteins circulate in the blood and may be deposited in the heart, interfering with your heart's function and causing it to enlarge. If the valves are damaged by conditions such as rheumatic fever, a heart defect, infections (infectious endocarditis), connective tissue disorders, certain medications or radiation treatments for cancer, your heart may enlarge. 2  Disease of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy).
Mother Goose (Barbara Lowin) in Barney's Rhyme Time Rhythm and A Little Mother Goose. Mother Goose is an imaginary author of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. She is also friends with Barney and visits him and his friends every once and a while.
In the Cairngorms is both the title of Nan Shepherd's single book of poetry, and a useful shorthand for where the heart of this remarkable novelist, teacher and mountaineer lay. Anna Shepherd (known as Nan) was born on 11 February 1893 at East Peterculter, and died in Aberdeen on 27 February 1981.Her father, John Shepherd, was a civil engineer, and her mother came from a family well established in Aberdeen.li Smith, 'Shepherd, Anna [Nan] (1893-1981), author and college teacher', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).