Ventricular Volume and Length in Hypertensive Diastolic Heart Failure

Our group of patients with hypertensive diastolic heart failure had significantly increased left ventricular volumes and stroke volume compared with control subjects, compatible with volume overload heart failure. Two-dimensional echocardiographic measurement of the ventricular chordal dimension failed to detect this enlargement. Ventricular length appeared to be preferentially increased in the patients with hypertensive diastolic heart failure.