[Cardiac rhythm disturbances in hypertensive cardiopathy].
Patients with hypertensive heart disease are at a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Ultrastructural and gross anatomical cardiac changes, combined with hemodynamic and neurovegetative balance fluctuations, are frequently responsible for cardiac arrhythmias of atrial and/or ventricular origin. The prevalence, the pathophysiologic mechanism and the prognostic significance of cardiac rhythm disturbances occurring in hypertensive heart disease are discussed in this review.
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Dipartimento di Cardiologia Mater Domini, Castellanza (VA), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Varese. jsalerno@unipv.it
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D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011379:Prognosis