Korean Circ J.  1982 Dec;12(2):157-165. 10.4070/kcj.1982.12.2.157.

Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

• Kim CB
• Yang YM
• Shin CS
• Lee JI
• Kim DH
• Hwang JW

• KMID: 2040184
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1982.12.2.157

Abstract

Echocardiography was done on 51 cases with various cardiovascular disease and on 23 cases of normal control subjects from April, 1981 to March, 1982 in the Department of internal medicine, Eul Ji General Hospital, Seoul, Korea. The results obtained were as follows: 1. The left ventricular mass estimated by the measurements made with standard convention was 261+/-8gm in patient group and 126+/-6gm in control group. With penn convention, the left ventricular mass of the patients group was 297+/-11gm and that of control group was 127+/-6gm. The differences between both conventions were significant statistically. 2. In measurements made with standard convention, those who showed increased left ventricular posterior wall thickness were 37 cases(73%) and those who showed increased left ventricular internal dimension were 15 cases(29%). On the other hand, number of cases who showed increased left ventricular mass were 45 cases(88%) and this results suggested estimation of left ventricular mass seems to be more useful method in the diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy than simple measurements of left ventricular posterior wall thickness of left ventricular internal dimension. 3. The correlation coefficient between left ventricular mass and maximum voltage of electrocardiography, left ventricular posterior wall thickness left ventricularinternal dimension was 0.70, 0.74 0.51 respectively in standard method and 0.82, 0.76, 0.44 respectively in penn convention. Left ventricular mass was correlated fairly closely with the maximum voltage of electrocardiography and left ventricular posterior wall thickeness, less closely with the left ventricular internal dimension.

MeSH Terms

Cardiovascular Diseases
Diagnosis*
Echocardiography*
Electrocardiography
Hand
Hospitals, General
Humans
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular*
Internal Medicine
Korea
Seoul