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  • Title: Effect of left ventricular hypertrophy secondary to systemic hypertension on left coronary artery flow dynamics.
    Author: Tadaoka S, Wada Y, Kimura A, Yada T, Tamura K, Hasegawa K, Nezuo S, Sawayama T, Tsujioka K, Kajiya F.
    Journal: Cardiovasc Res; 1991 Nov; 25(11):955-64. PubMed ID: 1839891.
    Abstract:
    STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim was to clarify the characteristics of the phasic blood velocity pattern and their possible causes in left ventricular hypertrophy secondary to systemic hypertension. DESIGN: Measurements of blood velocities in the left anterior descending coronary artery were made with a 20 MHz Doppler catheter with a top mounted annular crystal. All patients had normal coronary arteriograms. PATIENTS: 23 hypertensive patients [systolic/diastolic pressure: 181(SD 15)/100(4) mm Hg)] with left ventricular hypertrophy, and 13 atypical chest pain patients without left ventricular hypertrophy or any abnormal haemodynamic findings (normal controls) entered the study. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The left anterior descending coronary artery blood velocity waveform in pressure overloaded left ventricular hypertrophy was characterised by delayed early diastolic inflow. The diastolic rise time of coronary flow (TDR), ie, the time from the beginning of diastole to peak velocity, was higher in patients with hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy than in normal controls, at 145(56) v 66(15) ms, p less than 0.001. In patients with hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy, TDR correlated well with the degree of hypertrophy (r = 0.83, p less than 0.01) and also with peak left ventricular systolic pressure (r = 0.62, p less than 0.01). The coronary flow reserve, calculated from the ratio of the diastolic mean velocity after intracoronary injection of papaverine to the resting flow velocity, decreased with prolongation of TDR (r = 0.58, p less than 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: (1) Impairment of early diastolic coronary arterial inflow is the most remarkable characteristic in pressure overloaded left ventricular hypertrophy; (2) preceding systolic vascular compression and impaired left ventricular relaxation correlate with the delayed early diastolic inflow; (3) the delayed inflow is an important possible cause of the decreased coronary flow reserve in the hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy.
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