The role of an overall coronary bed affection in heart remodeling in patients with stenocardia and arterial hypertension
Dmitriev, V.L.; Volkova, E.G.; Levashov, S.I.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 74(4): 53-55
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 12043241 Document Number: 548860
To study a possible role of coronary circulation condition in remodeling heart in ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients with hypertension or without it. The examination (veloergometry, echo-CG and Doppler echocardiography, selective coronaroangiography and left ventriculography) covered 45 hypertensive men with angina of effort functional class III and 69 normotensive patients. Mean age of the patients was 51.8 +/- 1.2 years, duration of the angina 3 to 10 years. Correlation analysis of the data on hypertensive examinees discovered a direct correlation between proportional overall lesion of the coronary arteries, myocardial mass index and left ventricular (LV) index of systolic sphericity, between the sphericity index and myocardial mass index. An inverse correlation--with LV ejection fraction. In anginal patients, coronary circulation is an independent factor influencing LV remodeling. With progression of coronary failure remodeling intensifies. In patients with angina arterial hypertension contributes to the same degree to an increase in the personage of overall affection of the coronary bed, LV systolic sphericity index and index of its myocardial mass, forms an integral, global risk of heart remodelling and, later, heart failure.