Ventricular Arrhythmias and Prognostic Sig-nificance in Patients With Essential Hypertension

In this study, we looked the distribution and prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmias (VA) in patients with essential hypertension. Fifty patients with essential hypertension were included. After physical and laboratory exa-mination, interventricular septum (IVS) and left ventricular posterior wall (LVPW) thickness were measured in M-mode echo to detect left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Patients were classified into 2 main group according to presence or absence of LVH. Halter monitoring was performed and VAs seen in Halter were defined according to Lawn clas-sification_ All of the patients were followed clinically at least 6 months by 2 monthly intervals. All types of VAs were more common in LVH group, but only Lawn IVA group VA was sig-nificantly higher occurence. There were no malign VA and sudden death while Lawn IA group VAs were more common in the two group of patients.