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City Hospital, Birmingham
Patients with malignant phase hypertension have significant cardiac hypertrophy
March 22nd, 2005
A report from the West Birmingham Malignant Hypertension Register describes echocardiographic changes in patients with malignant phase hypertension. According to the report from England, "In order to study the echocardiographic abnormalities in consecutive patients with malignant phase hypertension (MHT), we reviewed echocardiograms of 31 patients (23 male; mean age 52±14 years) with MHT who were admitted to our unit." S. Nadar and colleagues of City Hospital in Birmingham explained, "Trans-thoracic echocardiography was carried out in all patients, and echocardiographic measurements were compared with those of 39 patients (30 male; mean age...
Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2005-03-22)
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