title: Cardiac imaging in patients with arterial hypertension.
abstract: Hypertension is considered the major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Conventional echocardiography is the most common and used imaging technique and can detect anatomical and functional changes easily in a real-time, quick, noninvasive and relatively inexpensive manner. Other imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging and 3-D echocardiography gained an increasing role in selected patients, as well as the study of arterial stiffness, also using ultrasonographic echo-tracking methods. This review analyzes the role of echocardiography and other imaging techniques in the evaluation of the cardiovascular effects of hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Sacile/CRO, Aviano, Pordenone, Italy.|Department of Cardiology, AAS5 Friuli Occidentale, Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Antonini-Canterin
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, AAS5 Friuli Occidentale, Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leiballi
authors.affiliation: Unit of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Sacile/CRO, Aviano, Pordenone, Italy - flaviamartinis@gmail.com.|Department of Cardiology, AAS5 Friuli Occidentale, Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: Flavia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martinis
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, AAS5 Friuli Occidentale, Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pavan
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D059289:Vascular Stiffness