LEFT-VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION IN ES SENTIAL-HYPERTENSION AND CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS WITH HYPERTENSION

Parameters of diastolic filling of the heart were studied in different types of arterial hypertension. In patients with essential hypertensi on and chronic pyelonephritis with hypertension diastolic dysfunction of left ventricle was found. There was moderate negative correlation b etween degree of severity of diastolic dysfunction and blood pressure. No significant correlation was found between derangements of transmit ral blood flow and degree of left ventricular hypertrophy. Considerabl e differences in structure of diastolic blood flow (mainly in velocity parameters of flow during left atrial systole) were noted between dif ferent types of hypertension. It was suggested that characteristics of trasmitral blood flow depended on genesis of hypertensive syndrome.