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Left Ventricular Mechano-Energetic Efficiency Identifies an Early Impairment of Myocardial Blood Flow in Arterial Hypertension.
Hypertension
July 2023
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples (M.L., W.A., M.V.M., C.M., G.E., R.A., E.Z., C.N., V.G., T.M., C.M., G.d.S., R.I., A.C., B.T.).
Background: Arterial hypertension causes cardiac functional and structural alterations. In hypertensive patients without flow-limiting epicardial coronary artery disease, we investigated possible relationships between positron emission tomography/computed tomography-derived myocardial blood flow (MBF) and echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular (LV) performance, including mechano-energetic efficiency indexed for myocardial mass (MEEi).
Methods: Seventy-eight hypertensive patients without flow-limiting epicardial coronary artery disease underwent echocardiography, including MEEi computation, and cardiac positron emission tomography/computed tomography with assessment of MBF/mass ratio at rest and after stress and myocardial flow reserve.