Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in hypertension

Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension.

Pulmonary hypertensive vascular disease (PHVD) is characterized by progressive narrowing of pulmonary arterioles, abnormally high pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, left ventricular (LV) compression, and death in ≈25% to 60% of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) 5 years after diagnosis. Meanwhile, consensus statements have been developed in...

Prognostic significance of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in essential hypertension.

OBJECTIVES We sought to assess the prognostic value of alterations in left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension. BACKGROUND Alterations in LV diastolic function are frequent in patients with hypertension, even in the absence of LV hypertrophy, but their prognostic significance has never been investigated. METHODS In the setting of the Progetto Ipertens...

Maternal diastolic dysfunction and left ventricular geometry in gestational hypertension.

The objective of this study was to evaluate diastolic parameters and left ventricular geometry in gestational hypertension. Twenty-one consecutive pregnant women with gestational hypertension and 21 normotensive women matched for age and gestational age were enrolled in the third trimester of gestation. Echocardiographic and uterine color Doppler evaluations were performed. Systolic, diastolic,...

P-wave dispersion and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in hypertension

echocardiographic assessment of inappropriate left ventricular mass and left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with diastolic dysfunction

background: early diagnosis of left ventricular mass (lvm) inappropriateness and left ventricular hypertrophy   (lvh) can result in preventing diastolic left ventricular dysfunction and its related morbidity and mortality. this study was performed to determine if diastolic dysfunction   is associated with lvh and inappropriate lvm. methods: one hundred   and twenty five uncomplicated hypertensi...