Hypertension (HTA) is a
global worldwide problem and is at the basis of many, primarily cardiac
disease. The first changes that hypertension causes on the heart are structuraland geometric adaptation changes.
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These changes cause
dilatation and/or hypertrophy of the left ventricle (LV), that is remodeling
LV, and they are accompanied by differences in cardiac function and
hemodynamics. Compensatory mechanism for hemodynamic load is the increase in
mass due to the hypertrophy of existing myocytes rather than hyperplasia as a
result of increase in myocyte width for parallel extensions sarcomeres which
results in an increase in wall thickness.
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