[Characteristics of left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with different forms of arterial hypertension based on echocardiographic data].

Echocardiographic investigation of 110 patients with different forms of stable arterial hypertension demonstrated a moderately close correlation between left-ventricular myocardial weight, and systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension and chronic diffuse glomerulonephritis, and a weak correlation between left-ventricular myocardial weight and systolic pressure in patients with renovascular hypertension and chronic unilateral or predominantly unilateral pyelonephritis. Inadequate left-ventricular hypertrophy has similar incidence (15-20%) in patients with different forms of arterial hypertension, whereas excessive hypertrophy only occurs in patients with essential hypertension. The frequency of asymmetrical hypertrophy differs in the two groups.