title: [Left ventricular peak filling velocity and its relevant factors in hypertrophic hearts].
abstract: To evaluate the relevant factors of left ventricular peak filling velocity, M-mode echocardiograms showing the left ventricular cavity were recorded and digitized for 81 patients with hypertrophic hearts (HTH) due to hypertensive heart disease (HHD, n = 30), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM, n = 25), aortic valve stenosis (AS, n = 9), and HHD and HCM with congestive heart failure (HHD and HCM with CHF, n = 17). Peak rates of increase or decrease in dimension (Vf and Ve, respectively) and peak values of instantaneous circumferential fiber lengthening and shortening velocities (Vf/D and Ve/D, respectively) were determined by computer analysis of left ventricular internal dimensions. Systolic excursion (SE), percent fractional shortening (%FS), mean circumferential fiber shortening velocity (mVcf), thickness of the interventricular septum and posterior wall at end-diastole and the sum of them (WThivs, WThpw, and WThivs + pw, respectively) were also calculated. Their variables were compared with those of normal subjects (n = 24). The results obtained were as follows: Systolic functions in HTH without CHF were similar to those of the normal subjects, but Vf and Vf/D were significantly decreased. Differences in Vf and Vf/D between various HTH without CHF were not significant. In AS and HTH with CHF, Vf and Vf/D were significantly decreased together with systolic function. Vf correlated significantly with WThivs + pw, SE, Ve, and WThivs, and Vf/D with %FS, SE, Ve/D, and Ve.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D013599:Systole