Left ventricular hypertrophy: Effect on survival

Effect of Carvacrol on Catalase Activity and mRNA Expression Following Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Rats

Background and Aims: Cardiac hypertrophy is a compensatory augmentation response of the heart due to pressure overload that can lead to heart failure. Carvacrol is considered as the major compound of many plants, that possesses strong antioxidant properties. The present study aimed to evaluate effect of carvacrol on catalase activity and mRNA expression following left ventricular hypertrop...

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...

Effect of dobutamine on regional diastolic left ventricular asynchrony in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.

Dobutamine improves systolic as well as diastolic function, but its effect on left ventricular (LV) asynchrony is unknown. An on-line automated segmental motion analysis (A-SMA) system was developed, based on an automatic border detection technique, to evaluate the effect of dobutamine on LV asynchrony in patients with LV hypertrophy (LVH). Low dose (5 microg x kg (-1) x min(-1)) dobutamine str...

Left ventricular hypertrophy.

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

The vectorcardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy, using the Frank lead system, was evaluated in 93 autopsied male patients (70 with hypertrophy of the left ventricle and 23 without such hypertrophy). The criterion of the maximal QRS magnitude in the transverse plane greater than 2.2 mv below the age of 50 years and 1.8 mv at the age of 50 or more was positive in 61% of hypertro...