K001 Depressed midwall fractional shortening predicts diastolic dysfunction in asymptomatic hypertensive patients

Serum Soluble ST2 and Diastolic Dysfunction in Hypertensive Patients

BACKGROUND Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular (LV) structural and functional alterations in hypertension has some limitations, potentially overcome by using biomarkers. ST2, a prognostic biomarker for heart failure and myocardial infarction patients, was less studied in hypertension. AIM To analyze the relationship between serum ST2 levels and diastolic dysfunction (DD) in hyper...

Layer-specific systolic and diastolic strain in hypertensive patients with and without mild diastolic dysfunction

This study sought to examine layer-specific longitudinal and circumferential systolic and diastolic strain, strain rate (SR) and diastolic time intervals in hypertensive patients with and without diastolic dysfunction. Fifty-eight treated hypertensive patients were assigned to normal diastolic function (NDF, N = 39) or mild diastolic dysfunction (DD, N = 19) group. Layer-specific systolic and d...

Normal Ranges and Physiological Changes of Midwall Fractional Shortening in Healthy Korean Population

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Left ventricular (LV) midwall fractional shortening (FSmw) reflects systolic function more accurately than LV endocardial fractional shortening (eFS) in patients with increased LV wall thickness. Although the normal reference ranges of LV-FSmw have been suggested in Western population studies, its reference values and age-related physiological changes in Eastern popula...

Relation between left ventricular midwall function and coronary vasodilator capacity in arterial hypertension.

In systemic hypertension, depressed left ventricular midwall shortening predicts an adverse outcome and is associated with increased left ventricular relative wall thickness, which has been proposed as an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk and reduced coronary reserve. This study was designed to investigate whether depressed midwall shortening is associated with more critical impairme...

albuminuria predicts kidney function outcome in egyptian essential hypertensive patients