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.
Dr. Seuss, Modern Mother Goose, Dies at 87. By ERIC PACE. Theodor Seuss Geisel, the author and illustrator whose whimsical fantasies written under the pen name Dr. Seuss entertained and instructed millions of children and adults around the world, died in his sleep on Tuesday night at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 87 years old.