Left ventricular contractile performance, ventriculoarterial coupling, and left ventricular efficiency in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.

Contractile performance of hypertrophied left ventricle may be depressed in arterial hypertension. Ventriculoarterial coupling is impaired when myocardial contractile performance is reduced and when afterload is increased. The left ventricular contractile performance and the ventriculoarterial coupling were evaluated in 30 hypertensive patients with moderate left ventricular hypertrophy and 20 control subjects. Left ventricular angiography coupled with the simultaneous recording of pressures with a micromanometer were used to determine end-systolic stress/volume index, the slope of end-systolic pressure-volume relationship, ie, end-systolic elastance, effective arterial elastance, external work, and pressure-volume area. In hypertensive patients, left ventricular contractile performance, as assessed by end-systolic elastance/ 100 g myocardial mass, was depressed (4.35 +/- 1.13 v 5.21 +/- 1.89 mm Hg/mL/100 g in control subjects P < .02), when end-systolic stress-to-volume ratio was comparable in the two groups (3.85 +/- 0.99 g/cm2/mL in hypertensive patients versus 3.51 +/- 0.77 g/cm2/mL in control subjects). Ventriculoarterial coupling, evaluated through effective arterial elastance/end-systolic elastance ratio, was slightly higher in hypertensive patients (0.53 +/- 0.08 v 0.48 +/- 0.09 mm Hg/mL in control subjects, P < .05), and work efficiency (external work/pressure-volume area) was similar in the two groups (0.78 +/- 0.04 mm Hg/mL in hypertensive patients versus 0.80 +/- 0.03 mm Hg/mL in control subjects). This study shows that despite a slight depression of left ventricular contractile performance, work efficiency is preserved and ventriculoarterial coupling is almost normal in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy. Thus, it appears that left ventricular hypertrophy might be a useful means of preserving the match between left ventricle and arterial receptor with minimal energy cost.

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