Reviews of the left ventricular hypertrophy in the elderly with hypertension

ABSTRACT

A study on 97 male patients with the hypertension ages of 64,1 +/- 14 in hospital 171 during 1993-5/1997 has shown that the hypertension was most frequently occurred in age of 60 (81,24%). The cardiac complications and large arterial complications in hypertension were common (67,01%) the cardiac complications include the left ventricular thickness (45,36% 45 cases with the left ventricular thickness were diagnosed by laparoscopy in which 30 cases with the centric thickness, 12 cases with the incentric thickness. The sensitivity and specificity of the eletrocardiography was 21/45 and 48/52, respectively. The frequent of the left ventricular thickness increased as increased age and its progress depends on the hypertension. The relation of the disorder of lipid metabolism and artherosclerosis exacerbated the hypertension and the left-ventricular thickness. The laparoscopy is valuable method diagnosis of the left ventricular thickness.