title: Echocardiographic evaluation in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess cardiac function in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied heart structure and left ventricular systolic and diastolic function by echocardiography in 38 patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (34 men and 4 women, mean age 24 +/- 4 years) and in 30 healthy subjects (25 men and 5 women, mean age 22 +/- 3 years). Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, end-systolic diameter, left ventricular septal wall thickness, posterior wall thickness and ejection fractions were measured by M-mode echocardiography. Parameters of mitral flow were measured by pulsed wave Doppler echocardiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between patients with and without hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, there were no significant differences in echocardiographic measurements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cardiac function is normal in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Karaderiz Teknit Universitesi Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erdöl
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erem
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baykan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gökçe
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Durmus
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D018619:Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left