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Usefulness of Subnormal Midwall Fractional Shortening in Predicting Left Ventricular Exercise Dysfunction in Asymptomatic Patients with Systemic Hypertension

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Journal Am J Cardiol
Date 1997 Apr 15
PMID 9114766
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Abstract

We have recently shown that a subgroup of asymptomatic hypertensive patients exhibit subnormal left ventricular (LV) midwall fiber shortening at rest and that this finding predicts morbidity and mortality independently of age, blood pressure (BP), or the presence of LV hypertrophy. However, it is unknown whether abnormal midwall fractional shortening predicts either subnormal LV functional reserve or extracardiac damage in asymptomatic hypertensive patients. Accordingly, we compared radionuclide cineangiographic LV ejection fraction at rest and maximum exercise as well as clinical findings between 89 patients with normal and 16 patients with subnormal midwall fractional shortening by echocardiogram. Patients with low midwall fractional shortening were similar in gender, age, and systolic BP to those with normal shortening but had higher mean diastolic BP and body mass indexes (both p < 0.05). The 2 groups also had similar resting ejection fraction (56 +/- 9% vs 55 +/- 15%, with normal or subnormal shortening, respectively, p = NS). Patients with subnormal midwall fractional shortening had higher LV mass and tended to have higher urinary protein excretion and serum creatinine levels. Subnormal LV ejection fraction with exercise (< 54%) was observed in 13 of 89 patients (15%) with normal midwall fractional shortening but in 7 of 16 patients (44%) with subnormal shortening (p < 0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that midwall fractional shortening independently predicted exercise performance (p < 0.001). Thus, subnormal midwall fractional shortening predicts depressed LV fractional reserve in asymptomatic hypertensive patients and may contribute to identification of patients with extracardiac target-organ damage.

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