Basis and clinical significance of regression of hypertensive hypertrophy.
The basis of every therapy in hypertensive heart disease is blood pressure normalization. However, blood pressure should be lowered through antihypertensive drugs, which can regress LV hypertrophy, increase myocardial perfusion and improve LV function depending on the stage of hypertensive heart disease. Such a step-care of hypertensive heart disease must not be understood as a therapeutic scheme, but should be considered as an attempt to cover the clinical therapy of common hypertensive cardiac complications.
D000818:Animals; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents