Is left ventricular postsystolic long-axis shortening a marker for severity of hypertensive heart disease?

Am J Cardiol. 2003 Jun 15;91(12):1490-3, A8. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(03)00407-7.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Blood Flow Velocity / physiology
  • Blood Pressure / physiology
  • Diastole / physiology
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Diseases / epidemiology
  • Heart Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / epidemiology
  • Hypertension / physiopathology*
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / epidemiology
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Observer Variation
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Stroke Volume / physiology
  • Systole / physiology
  • Ventricular Function, Left / physiology