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Hypertensive Heart DiseasesTypes

Hypertensive Heart DiseasesTypes

Feature Systemic Pulmonary

Criteria LV Hypertrophy, Evidence of HTN

RV dilation, Exclude congenital causes & LHF

Effects LV Hypertrophy LA dilation LVF

RV dilation Cor pulmonale

OtherComplications

Systemic Thromboembolism

Functional TR

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Hypertensive Heart Diseases Pulmonary HTN Causes

Lung parenchymal pathology

COPD= due to loss of Pul. vasculatureFibrotic lung diseases= compression/ obliteration of Pul.

vesselsvascular pathology

Thrombo – Embolism, Vasculitis, Drugs, ChemicalsChest Wall

Cause HypoventilationKyphoscoliosis, Obesity ( Pickwickian syndrome),

Neurological

Hypertensive Heart Diseases Pulmonary HTN Causes

Lung parenchymal pathology

COPD= due to loss of Pul. vasculatureFibrotic lung diseases= compression/ obliteration of Pul.

vesselsvascular pathology

Thrombo – Embolism, Vasculitis, Drugs, ChemicalsChest Wall

Cause HypoventilationKyphoscoliosis, Obesity ( Pickwickian syndrome),

Neurological

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