Downloaded from www.medrech.com “Ejection fraction rate for hypertensive patients using echocardiography” Sharief K. M., et al., Med. Res. Chron., 2015, 2 (3), 322-329 Medico Research Chronicles, 2015 322 Submitted on: April 2015 Accepted on: May 2015 For Correspondence Email ID: EJECTION FRACTION RATE FOR HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS USING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY K.M.Sharief 1,2 , H. A. Hassan 2 , H.Osman 1,2 , Al-Safi Ahmed 2 1. Taif University, Faculty of Applied medical Science KSA. 2. Sudan University college of Medical Radiologic Science, Khartoum, Sudan Original Research Article Medrech ISSN No. 2394-3971 Abstract: The main objectives of this study were to measure ejection fraction (EF) in hypertensive patient (HTN) and to correlate ejection fraction (EF) in hypertensive with age, gender, left ventricle hypertrophy (LVH) and left ventricle diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) using Echocardiography. EF was calculated by using Echocardiography for 100 HTN patients with varying ages started from 50 to 80 years, half of them were male and other half were female (50/50). Echocardiography instrumentation that used for this calculation was my lab 50 from Esaote Company. This study showed that the EF was normal in more than two third of study samples. Few samples of study were high EF that may lead to Hypertrophy cardiomyopathy (HCM) and very few samples of study were low EF that may lead to heart failure (HF). Also the study showed that the EF found to be decrease as the LVH increases and LVDD decreases in HTN patients, the LVDD may occurred before the LVH\, but the EF can be normal in both cases . A low EF is indicated cardiac failure, and high EF is indicated hypertensive cardiomyopathy (HCM). Even with normal ejection fraction, over all cardiac function may not be normal. Keyword: Ejection fraction (EF), Left Ventricle Hypertrophy, Left diastolic dysfunction, HTN Introduction: Hypertension is considering a major public health problem that associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. The major effecting of hypertensive on heart is abnormalities that include left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), systolic and diastolic dysfunction, and their clinical manifestations including arrhythmias and symptomatic heart failure so it can call hypertensive heart disease. In hypertensive heart disease the first part affecting is the left ventricular (LV) wall thickens in response due to elevated blood pressure as a