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Ital Heart J
; 1 Suppl 2: 37-41, 2000 Jun.
Article
in Italian
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10905127
ABSTRACT
Patients with hypertensive heart disease are at a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Ultrastructural and gross anatomical cardiac changes, combined with hemodynamic and neurovegetative balance fluctuations, are frequently responsible for cardiac arrhythmias of atrial and/or ventricular origin. The prevalence, the pathophysiologic mechanism and the prognostic significance of cardiac rhythm disturbances occurring in hypertensive heart disease are discussed in this review.