BOSNIAN JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 2007; 7 (1): 15-20

TDiastolic dysfunction is very frequent and is actually sign of manifest heart weakness. Over of pa-tients with heart weakness have isolated left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD). New diagnostics methods as Doppler Echocardiography with close monitoring enables precise and early LVDD diagnose. In all diastolic phases artery hypertension weakens relaxation and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) weakens compliance also. Th e purpose of this study is to demonstrate importance of all LVDD. Dop-pler echocardiography parameters usage and its important echocardiography characteristic in case of hypertensive patients. Th is study represents patients with essential hypertension – random sample. Th ree patients had atrial fi brillation. Besides anamnestic data collection, echocardiography evaluation was undertaken on all patients. For LVDD diagnose following parameters were used: isovolumic relax-ation time (IVRT), peak early fi lling velocity (E), peak atrial fi lling velocity (A), E/A ratio, DT (decelera-tion time), left ventricular (LV) mass. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) was verifi ed for patients. Seven hypertensive patients didn’t have verifi ed LVH. Comparing patients with LVH with those without LVH diff erences were observed: patients with LVH had a longer IVRT, lower E/A ratio, A wave growth, IVRT directly correlates with LV mass increase and backward correlation LV mass with E/A was noticed