[Left ventricular myocardial function in ischemic heart disease in combination with hypertension].

The work discusses the echocardiographic data on the function of the left-ventricular myocardium in patients with ischemic heart disease and hypertensive disease. Computer treatment of the echocardiograms allowed the authors to study not only the systole but the diastole also. It is shown that in patients in whom hypertensive disease is combined with ischemic heart disease, the process of myocardial relaxation is disturbed. The function of the left atrium is disturbed to a greater measure and earlier, and these disturbances preceed the disorders of th function of the left ventricle.