Báez AA, Álvarez AA, Cardoso SA, Tamayo VM

Language: Spanish
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Page: 559-572
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ABSTRACT

Hypertensive heart disease is a complex and variable set of effects that causes the chronic elevation of blood pressure in the heart. We conducted a prospective descriptive study of the patients admitted to the provincial hospital September 17 Sumbe, province of Kwanza Sul, Angola, in the period from 2015 to 2017, with the objective of describing the geometric pattern of hypertensive patients admitted to heart failure. We investigated 97 patients who were admitted to acute ventricular failure. 52.6 % belonged to the female sex, patients under 58 years of age predominated. The mean of the ventricular mass was pathological (271.60 g). The most frequent geometric pattern was concentric remodeling of the left ventricle with 64.9 % and left ventricle diastolic dysfunction grade IV was the predominant with 42 patients. Severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction was the greatest exponent with 27 patients in the entire sample. Finally, those of different degrees of hypertensive heart disease, the grade IV with 61 patients prevailed. We concluded that more than a half of the patients were under 58 years of age and women were more affected. There was a predominance of concentric remodeling of the left ventricle, as well as its diastolic dysfunction. It is relevant that the majority of patients classified in grade IV hypertensive heart disease.