The Effect of Antihypertensive Therapy on Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain: Missing Part of the Puzzle

Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research - Tập 14 Số 1 - Trang 125-128 - 2021
Tadic, Marijana1, Cuspidi, Cesare2
1Department of Cardiology, University Clinical Hospital Center “Dr. Dragisa Misovic-Dedinje”, Belgrade, Serbia
2Clinical Research Unit, University of Milan-Bicocca and Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Meda, Italy

Tóm tắt

There is no consensus regarding the benefit of antihypertensive therapy on left ventricular structure and function. The most of studies investigated the effect of therapy on left ventricular hypertrophy, less studies were focused on left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and the minority on left ventricular mechanics. The majority of investigations showed positive effect of antihypertensive therapy on regression of left ventricular remodeling. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to distinguish the effect of antihypertensive medication from the effect of blood pressure reduction on left ventricular improvement. The other important issue in these studies is difficulty to distinguish the effect of left ventricular hypertrophy regression from the effect of antihypertensive medications on left ventricular diastolic function and mechanics. The novel findings suggest that the cascade of left ventricular remodeling in hypertensive heart disease begins with mechanical changes, continuous with diastolic dysfunction, and ends with left ventricular hypertrophy. This is very important paradigm because it enables early and timely diagnosis of subclinical left ventricular damage in hypertensive patients and should provide rapid detection of left ventricular function improvement during antihypertensive therapy.

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