Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--diagnostic significance of the disproportion of myocardial hypertrophy examined by two-dimensional echocardiography
Tomov, I.; Kutova, T.; Turnovska, R.
Vutreshni Bolesti 27(3): 41-47
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0506-2772 PMID: 2974670 Document Number: 310175
34 patients with myocardial hypertrophy, mean age 44 years, were examined by two-dimensional echocardiography and the degree of disproportion of the hypertrophy of the different left ventricular segments was analyzed. Besides the classic index--ratio between the septum and the posterior ventricular wall--a new index for the asymmetry of the hypertrophic process is proposed: the ratio between the thickest, segment and the thinnest segment. The new index is more sensitive in determining the asymmetrical hypertrophy.