EJECTION FRACTION RATE FOR HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS USING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

  • K. M. Sharief Taif University, Faculty of Applied medical Science KSA.
  • H. A. Hassan Sudan University college of Medical Radiologic Science, Khartoum, Sudan
  • H. Osman Taif University, Faculty of Applied medical Science KSA.
  • Al-Safi Ahmed Sudan University college of Medical Radiologic Science, Khartoum, Sudan
Keywords: Ejection fraction (EF), Left Ventricle Hypertrophy, Left diastolic dysfunction, HTN

Abstract

The main objectives of this study were to measure ejection fraction (EF) in the hypertensive patients (HTN) and to correlate ejection fraction (EF) in hypertensive with age, gender, left ventricle hypertrophy (LVH) and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) using Echocardiography. EF was calculated by using Echocardiography for 100 HTN patients with varying ages started from 50 to 80 years, half of them were male and the other half were female (50/50). Echocardiography instrumentation that used for this calculation was my lab 50 from Esaote Company. This study showed that the EF was normal in more than two-third of study samples. Few samples of the study were high EF that may lead to Hypertrophy cardiomyopathy (HCM) and very few samples of the study were low EF that may lead to heart failure (HF). Also, the study showed that the EF found to be decreased as the LVH increases and LVDD decreases in HTN patients, the LVDD may occur before the LVH\, but the EF can be normal in both cases. A low EF is indicated cardiac failure, and high EF is indicated hypertensive cardiomyopathy (HCM). Even with normal ejection fraction, overall cardiac function may not be normal

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Sharief KM, Hassan HA, Osman H, Ahmed A-S. EJECTION FRACTION RATE FOR HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS USING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY. Med. res. chronicles [Internet]. 2015May15 [cited 2024Nov.22];2(3):322-9. Available from: https://medrech.com/index.php/medrech/article/view/89
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2015): May-Jun
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Original Research Article