Effect of an Increase in Global Left Ventricular Afterload on Myocardial Deformation in Patients with Aortic Stenosis, Comparison with Hypertensive Patients

Aims: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) secondary to hypertension and aortic stenosis (AS) are often considered together to be pressure overload hypertrophy. We hypothesized that important differences could exist in the myocardial function with these 2 origins of pressure-overload LVH.