Left ventricular hypertrophy: is it really?

Left ventricular hypertrophy: is it really?

Background Patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), typically assessed by 2D echocardiography, are at a greater risk for heart failure and sudden cardiac death. An accurate diagnosis of LVH is essential to clinical evaluation and treatment. However, 2D echo has inferior spatial resolution and less than optimal measurement positioning, relative to cardiac MRI. This “real-world” study, b...

Left ventricular hypertrophy in obese hypertensives: is it really eccentric? (An echocardiographic study).

In order to study left ventricular hypertrophy patterns in obese hypertensives, we examined 132 patients with essential hypertension by 2D, M-mode and Doppler echocardiography. The patients were classified in four comparable groups, corresponding to the values of Quetelet's body mass index (BMI) and grades of obesity. More obese hypertensives had on average larger left ventricles with thicker w...

Left ventricular hypertrophy: why does it happen?

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have much higher rates of cardiovascular disease than the healthy population. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), in particular, is common in this patient group. The impact of a decline in haemoglobin concentration on left ventricular mass index has been well documented. Partial correction of anaemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin) tr...

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Familial Predisposition of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

METHODS Echocardiographic and anthropometric measurements were performed in 2,293 individuals who participated in the echocardiographic substudies of population-based MONICA Augsburg surveys. In addition, a total of 319 siblings of survey participants with echocardiographic evidence of LVH were evaluated. The risk of these siblings to present with LVH or abnormal LV geometry was estimated by co...

Left ventricular hypertrophy.