Korean Circ J.  1984 Dec;14(2):295-300. 10.4070/kcj.1984.14.2.295.

Correlation between the Electrocardiographic ST-T Changes and Echocardiographic Changes in Patients with Hypertensive Heart Disease

• Cho CG
• Kim CW
• Park YK
• Park OK

• KMID: 2093193
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1984.14.2.295

Abstract

On the basis of the electrocardiographic ST-T changes, 46 patients with hypertensive heart disease were evaluated with echocardiography and classified into three groups; Those without any ST-T changes(group I, 6 patients) ; those with various nonspecific ST-T changes(group II, 20 patient); and those with full-blown LVh strain pattern (group III, 20 patients). In group III, left ventricular posterior wall thickness (p<0.01). interventricular septal thickness(p<0.05) and cardiac muscle mass(p<0.02) increased significantly and end-systolic dimension(p<0.05), relative wall thickness(p<0.02) also in creased significantly but ejection fraction decreased significantly (p<0.05). These results suggest that LVH strain pattern is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy or thickening, left ventricular dilatation and/or functional deterioration and that left ventricular wall thickness increase progressively even in the stage of LVH strain pattern on electrocardiogram.

MeSH Terms

Dilatation
Echocardiography*
Electrocardiography*
Heart Diseases*
Heart*
Humans
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
Myocardium