The accuracy of electrocardiography, M-mode echocardiography and two-dimensional echocardiography in predicting left ventricular hypertrophy was compared in 50 patients who came to autopsy within 6 months after the studies were performed. Several methods for determining left ventricular hypertrophy were examined for each of the three techniques. M-mode echocardiography was technically adequate ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy is the main risk factor for development of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients on hemodialysis. Left ventricular hypertrophy is found in 75% of the patients treated with hemodialysis. Risk factors for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients on hemodialysis include: blood flow through arterial-venous fistula, anemia, hypertension, increased extracellu...

Left ventricular hypertrophy is a maladaptive response to chronic pressure overload and an important risk factor for atrial fibrillation, diastolic heart failure, systolic heart failure, and sudden death in patients with hypertension. Since not all patients with hypertension develop left ventricular hypertrophy, there are clinical findings that should be kept in mind that may alert the physicia...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of obesity and its interaction with age, race and the magnitude of blood pressure elevation in a large cohort of patients with mild to moderate hypertension and a high prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy. BACKGROUND Obesity, race and age each have important effects on the incidence and severity of hypertension and may co...

introduction: chest x–ray is one of the most common method of imaging. cardio thoracic ratio ( ctr ) is one of the parameters of chest x–ray that is used for determining cardiac enlargement. echocardiography as compared to chest x–ray is expensive and all centers dont have it, but it can determine heart size, valvular diseases, ejection fraction, left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh), pericardial ...

Electrocardiograms of 2500 consecutive patients who died in hospital were reviewed in order to study the relation ofcomplete left bundle-branch block to pathological determinants ofanatomical left ventricular hypertrophy. Of these, 43 patients demonstrated complete left bundle-branch block and all but two had anatomical left ventricular hypertrophy at necropsy. -Mean values of total heart weigh...

Background: QT abnormalities have been reported in left ventricular hypertrophy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Objective: To determine the relation between left ventricular hypertrophy and increased QT interval in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Methods: The QT interval was measured in 206 genotyped adult subjects with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from 15 unrelated families carr...

To determine the prevalence and correlates of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy among subjects in a general population, we studied 621 employed subjects. Patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension in a worksite-based treatment program included 145 with borderline hypertension and 316 with sustained hypertension by World Health Organization criteria. Normotensive subjects we...

Abbreviations: BSA – basic surface area, H-LVH – hypertension with left ventricular hypertrophy, H­NLVH – hypertension with­ out left ventricular hypertrophy, IVST – interventricular septum thickness in diastole, LEPR – leptin receptor, LVDd – left ven­ tricular end­diastolic diameter, LVH – left ventricular hypertro­ phy, LVM – left ventricular mass, LVMI – left ventricular mass index, PVST – ...