Echocardiographic findings in non-hypertensive subjects in Bayelsa, Nigeria
| Autor: | Kiridi, EK, Dambo, ND |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research; Vol 5, No 2 (2016); 101-105 |
| ISSN: | 2277-0941 2315-5019 |
| Popis: | Background: Echocardiography is one of the tools for the assessment of patients with hypertensive disease. Differences in parameters have been described based on race, gender and environment.Aim: In order to define what should be considered abnormal, we set to find out what the normal cardiac parameters are in our environment. Methods: This was a cross sectional of 80 non hypertensive adults. Transthoracic 2D echocardiography was performed with patients in the left decubitus position using standard techniques. Results: From this study, we found the left ventricular mass to be 129 ± 37.61, the ejection fraction (%) 62.77 ± 10.55 and the fractional shortening (%) to be 34.18 ± 7.49. Values for the intraventricular septal thickness, posterior wall diameter, left ventricle internal diameter (in diastole and systole) are (0.92±0.19, 1.43±0.24), (0.91±0.17, 1.47±0.23) and (4.32±0.50, 2.83±0.42) respectively. All the parameters other than relative wall thickness and ejection fraction showed statistically significant difference (P |
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