title: Varieties of right ventricular diastolic function in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
abstract: We examined whether differences in the location of myocardial hypertrophy influence the right ventricular diastolic function in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using cineangiography. Biplane right ventriculography was performed in 34 subjects (normal = 14, asymmetric septal hypertrophy = 9, apical hypertrophy = 11) during cardiac catheterization. In patients with asymmetric septal hypertrophy, compared with apical hypertrophy and normal groups, the indices of the right ventricular diastolic function including right ventricular peak filling rate and filling fraction of rapid filling phase were lower and the time to peak filling rate was prolonged. But in patients with apical hypertrophy, these indices were not significantly different compared with normal. There were no differences in right ventricular ejection fraction and cardiac index among the three groups. These data suggest that the location of the myocardial hypertrophy of the left ventricle is a significant factor affecting the right ventricular diastolic filling in non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
authors.forename: Kohtaroh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Komaki
authors.forename: Masahito
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakuma
authors.forename: Hidehiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishigaki
authors.forename: Hidenari
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hozawa
authors.forename: Yoshito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Norihisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kumasaka
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kagaya
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Kunio
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shirato
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001830:Body Surface Area; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002932:Cineangiography; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology*