Left ventricular geometry, pathophysiology and prognosis

Prognostic Implications of Echocardiographically Determined Left Ventricular Mass in the Framingham Heart Study

1990 • 5,586 citations

Relation of Left Ventricular Mass and Geometry to Morbidity and Mortality in Uncomplicated Essential Hypertension

1991 • 2,374 citations

Patterns of left ventricular hypertrophy and geometric remodeling in essential hypertension

1992 • 1,591 citations

Assessment of left ventricular function by the midwall fractional shortening/end-systolic stress relation in human hypertension

1994 • 603 citations

Prognosis of left ventricular geometric patterns in the Framingham heart study

1995 • 532 citations

The Prognostic Role of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients with or without Coronary Artery Disease

1992 • 467 citations

Adverse prognostic significance of concentric remodeling of the left ventricle in hypertensive patients with normal left ventricular mass

1995 • 423 citations

Relation of obesity and gender to left ventricular hypertrophy in normotensive and hypertensive adults.

1994 • 394 citations

Role of preclinical cardiovascular disease in the evolution from risk factor exposure to development of morbid events.

1993 • 298 citations

Left Ventricular Mass and Risk of Stroke in an Elderly Cohort

1994 • 288 citations

Relation of left ventricular hemodynamic load and contractile performance to left ventricular mass in hypertension.

1990 • 244 citations

Association of carotid atherosclerosis and left ventricular hypertrophy

1995 • 242 citations

Echocardiographic correlates of left ventricular structure among 844 mildly hypertensive men and women in the Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study (TOMHS).

1993 • 230 citations

Comparison of Left Ventricular Mass and Geometry in Black and White Patients With Essential Hypertension

1993 • 113 citations

Comparison of classification of the severity of hypertension by blood pressure level and by World Health Organization criteria in the prediction of concurrent cardiac abnormalities and subsequent complications in essential hypertension

1993 • 108 citations

Prognostic value of left ventricular mass in uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction and one-vessel coronary artery disease

1994 • 96 citations

Relation of obesity, high sodium intake, and eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy to left ventricular exercise dysfunction in essential hypertension

1990 • 72 citations

Relation of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and extracardiac target organ damage to supranormal left ventricular performance in established essential hypertension

1988 • 65 citations

Echocardiographically determined left ventricular structural and functional correlates of complex or frequent ventricular arrhythmias on one-hour ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring

1987 • 36 citations

In vivo left ventricular anatomy in rats with two-kidney, one clip and one-kidney, one clip renovascular hypertension

1992 • 36 citations

Ability of left ventricular stress-shortening relations, end-systolic stress/volume ratio and indirect indexes to detect severe contractile failure in ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1989 • 31 citations

Stroke volume and left heart anatomy in relation to plasma volume in essential hypertension

1991 • 27 citations

WHAT IS NORMAL BLOOD-PRESSURE ?

1939 • 2 citations