The risk of adverse cardiovascular events is higher in persons with electrocardiographic evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy, and the decision to treat patients with antihypertensive drugs is often determined by the presence of hypertrophy. In this study a number of electrocardiographic criteria for detection of left ventricular hypertrophy were applied to a population of 85 hypertensive s...

To determine whether patients with hypertension and especially those with left ventricular hypertrophy have subtle changes in cardiac function, we measured the increase in left ventricular ejection fraction and in systolic blood pressure to end-systolic volume index ratio with exercise in 40 hypertensive patients and 16 age-matched normotensive volunteers. Twenty-two hypertensive patients witho...

RECENT advances in the field of cardiac surgery require greater precision in the diagnosis of early ventricular hypertrophy. Although many electrocardiographic criteria are proposed for the diagnosis of ventricular hypertrophy, only a few articles discuss their accuracy. Most studies apply criteria to either left or right ventricular hypertrophy as found in proved hypertrophy, but sufficient st...

RECENT advances in the field of cardiac surgery require greater precision in the diagnosis of early ventricular hypertrophy. Although many electrocardiographic criteria are proposed for the diagnosis of ventricular hypertrophy, only a few articles discuss their accuracy. Most studies apply criteria to either left or right ventricular hypertrophy as found in proved hypertrophy, but sufficient st...

The QRS amplitude, duration, and mean axis direction of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram were compared with left ventricular mass, volume, wall thickness, and stroke work in 112 adult patients. These patients had normal left ventricles or various degrees of left ventricular dilatation or hypertrophy. Left ventricular volumes and mass were determined by a quantitative angiocardiographic me...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between left ventricular hypertrophy and insulin resistance in Gambians. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Outpatient clinics of Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital and Medical Research Council Laboratories in Banjul. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred and sixteen consecutive patients were enrolled from outpatient clinics. The data of 275 participants (89 m...

A clinical-pathologic study was made of 50 patients with complete left bundle branch block who had postmortem examinations performed at three Salt Lake City hospitals. Forty (80 percent) were found to have left ventricular hypertrophy as determined from measured left ventricular wall thickow but only 14 had electrocardiographic evidence of this while two of the ten patients without left ventric...

Important electrophysiological alterations that may predispose hearts to arrhythmias have been described for hypertrophied myocytes, and hypertrophy coupled with ischemia has been associated with an increased incidence of sudden death; however, an influence of hypertrophy on reperfusion arrhythmias has not been previously described. We hypothesized that reperfusion-associated arrhythmias would ...

INTRODUCTION Left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in children and adolescents with essential hypertension tend to be underdiagnosed. The aims of this study were to investigate left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in the subjects with essential hypertension defined by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. METHODS A total of 38 Korean subjects aged 9-19 years...