title: [Myocardial deformation and rotation in hypertensive men with different degrees of left ventricular hypertrophy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to assess parameters of myocardial deformation and rotation in untreated hypertensive men depending on presence and degree of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined 98 hypertensive men aged 51 (46-58) years. Examination included clinical evaluation, conventional transthoracic echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, routine laboratory screening. LV deformation and rotation was studied by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In patients without LVH we observed significant decrease of longitudinal strain without changes of rotation. Higher degree of LVH was associated with more pronounced lowering of longitudinal deformation. Severe LVH was characterized by decreased longitudinal, circumferential and radial deformation with compensatory increase of apical LV rotation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Changes of LV deformation are observed in patients with hypertension before LVH formation. This opens new perspectives of early assessment of LV remodeling. Changes of LV deformation are related to degree of LVH.
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Dziak
authors.forename: M Iu
authors.initials: MIu
authors.lastname: Kolesnik
mesh_terms: D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*