石竹 久仁¹, 佐倉 英一郎², 佐々木 博², 中村 玄², 岡本 光師³

Hisahito ISHITAKE¹, Eiichiro SAKURA², Hiroshi SASAKI², Fukashi NAKAMURA², Mitsunori OKAMOTO³

¹広島記念病院中央検査科, ²広島記念病院内科, ³県立広島病院第1内科

¹Department of Central Laboratory, Hiroshima Memorial Hospital, ²Internal Medicine, Hiroshima Memorial Hospital, ³The First Department of Internal Medicine, Perfectural Hiroshima Hospital

キーワード : Essential hypertension, Diastolic characteristics, Pulsed Doppler echocardiography, Left ventricular hypertrophy, Diastolic dysfunction

We examined changes in left ventricular diastolic filling in the progress of essential hypertension by pulsed Doppler echocardiography. The study population comprised 34 hypertensive patients with WHO stage I (H1), 31 hypertensive patients with WHO stage II (H2) and 51 control subjects (C). The isovolumic relaxation time in H1 (91±17 msec, p