title: [Role of arterial hypertension in the cardiac involvement of acromegaly].
abstract: Cardiac disease is common in acromegaly. Several mechanisms have been implicated: hypertension, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, endocrinopathies including "acromegalic cardiomyopathy". Fifteen consecutive patients with acromegaly, aged 48 +/- 13 years and treated for 4 +/- 5 years, underwent Doppler echocardiography. The patients had no cardiovascular symptoms: 6 had hypertension for 10 +/- 7 years and were compared with a group of 10 control subjects of the same age (48 +/- 17 years). The myocardial mass index (MMI) was higher in acromegaly (110 +/- 32 vs 82 +/- 12 g/m2, p = 0.02), left ventricular enddiastolic dimensions where comparable (48 +/- 7 vs 48 +/- 5 mm, NS) fractional shortening was slightly greater (0.37 +/- 0.04 vs 0.34 +/- 0.04, p = 0.07) as was velocity of shortening (NS) and the ratio of systolic time intervals (NS). The mitral EF slope was decreased (80 +/- 21 vs 101 +/- 30 ms; p less than 0.02); the ratio of the amplitudes of the E and A waves was a little decreased and the isovolumic relaxation phase was increased (92 +/- 13 vs 69 +/- 16 ms; p less than 0.01). Hypertensives (N = 6) had higher MMI (133 +/- 27 vs 94 +/- 24 g/m2, p = 0.02). Normotensive patients had larger isovolumic relaxation periods than control subjects (90 +/- 11 vs 69 +/- 16 ms, p less than 0.05). These results show that in the infraclinical phase, the heart in acromegaly is hypertrophied, not dilated. Hypertension plays a significant role in the development of this hypertrophy. Left ventricular systolic function is normal but diastolic function is impaired.
authors: Service de cardiologie, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Morvan
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Komajda
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Grimaldi
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Turpin
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Grosgogeat
mesh_terms: D000172:Acromegaly / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction
vernacular_title: Rôle de l'hypertension artérielle dans l'atteinte cardiaque de l'acromégalie.