The regional contractility of the left ventricle in patients with ischemic heart disease and concomitant hypertension

: Differential evaluation was carried out of hypertrophy as a factor possibly of compensatory or that of furthering disturbances of the coronary circulation and contractile function of the myocardium. Echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography tests with physical loads revealed that only moderate hypertrophy of the left ventricle in IHD patients with hypertensive disease (grade II) may be considered as one of the compensatory factors maintaining the functional state of the left ventricle myocardium.