Echocardiographic assessment of the different left ventricular geometric patterns in hypertensive patients

Echocardiographic assessment of the different left ventricular geometric patterns in hypertensive patients

OBJECTIVE: To identiy left ventricular geometric patterns in hypertensive patients on echocardiography, and to correlate those patterns with casual blood pressure measurements and with the parameters obtained on a 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. METHODS: We studied sixty hypertensive p...

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Main Authors: Delma Maria Cunha, Ademir Batista da Cunha, Wolney de Andrade Martins, Luís Augusto de Freitas Pinheiro, Luís José Martins Romêo, Álvaro Vilela de Moraes, Fernando Portugal Morcerf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2001-01-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Subjects:
hypertension
left ventricular hypertrophy
echocardiography
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