Right ventricular filling pattern in hypertensive patients: echo doppler study

ABSTRACT

Right ventricular filling pattern was assessed in thirty hypertensive patients, their ages were 52 +/- 10 years and thirty healthy age- matched non-hypertensive controls using pulsed Doppler echocardiographic study. Hypertensive patients had significantly thicker anterior right ventricular wall, higher ratio of late to early peak filling velocity and higher atrial filling fractions of both ventricles than normotensive control. In contrast to left ventricular filling, right ventricular filling pattern parameters correlated poorly with age in hypertensive patients. However, right ventricular filling parameters were closely related to left ventricular filling dynamic both in hypertensive patients and health controls. Thus, this study showed altered right ventricular filling dynamics in hypertensive patients in a pattern closely correlated to left ventricular filling dynamic