Relationship Between On-Treatment Decreases in Inappropriate Versus Absolute or Indexed Left Ventricular Mass and Increases in Ejection Fraction in Hypertension
Hypertension, 08/01/2012
Woodiwiss AJ et al. – Decreases in inappropriate left ventricular mass (LVM) are strongly related to on–treatment increases in ejection fraction (EF) beyond changes in LVM and LVM index. LV hypertrophy can, therefore, be viewed as a compensatory change that preserves EF, but when in excess of that predicted by stroke work, it can be viewed as a pathophysiological process accounting for a reduced EF.
