Abstract:
The study was conducted in Sudan heart centre in Khartoum city in may 2014 to October 2015 and the data collected from patients files and analysis by SPSS.
The study designed to define the role of echocardiography in heart disease especially left ventricle (LV) of patients with hypertension whom have chest pain , shortness of breathing and other abnormalities related to heart by evaluate the LV according to age , gender and duration of hypertension .
The result with A 50 patients underwent echocardiography heart was assessed and left ventricle( LV ) was detected and other LV defect was evaluated, age ( mean age 56-70 year) (46%) , gender (27 male 54% , 23 female) (45% ) and clinical finding, study conclude that left ventricle hypertrophy found in many stage moderate (38%) severe (14%) .
A significant relationship was noted between left ventricle and hypertensive patient according to age.
Finally echocardiography offers identifying patients intended to have cardiac events by diagnosis the heart and especially LV and characterizing the abnormalities, that believed the measurement of LV will provided an acknowledgment of heart diseases especially left
