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- Title
Echocardiography-based left ventricular mass estimation. How should we define hypertrophy?
- Authors
Foppa, Murilo; Duncan, Bruce B.; Rohde, Luis E. P.
- Abstract
Left ventricular hypertrophy is an important risk factor in cardiovascular disease and echocardiography has been widely used for diagnosis. Although an adequate methodologic standardization exists currently, differences in measurement and interpreting data is present in most of the older clinical studies. Variability in border limits criteria, left ventricular mass formulas, body size indexing and other adjustments affects the comparability among these studies and may influence both the clinical and epidemiologic use of echocardiography in the investigation of the left ventricular structure. We are going to review the most common measures that have been employed in left ventricular hypertrophy evaluation in the light of some recent population based echocardiographic studies, intending to show that echocardiography will remain a relatively inexpensive and accurate tool diagnostic tool.
- Subjects
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERTROPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; PARTIAL left ventriculectomy; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2005, Vol 3, p1
- ISSN
1476-7120
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1476-7120-3-17