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• Published Subscription 2 Jun 2020

  Potential Role of Unani Herbs in Management of Hypertensive Cardiomyopathy: A Review

  By Mulla Abdul Wahid, Mohd Khalid, Khan Azhar Hasan, Mariyam Roqaiya, Hina Fatima

  Abstract: AbstractHypertensive cardiomyopathy (HTN-CM) is a structural heart disease associated with concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) along with systolic or diastolic dysfunction in primary hypertensive patients in the absence of other cardiac diseases causing myocardial hypertrophy or cardiac dysfunction. The structural and functional myocardial abnormalities due to persistent hypertension result in myocardial ischemia, fibrosis, and hypertrophy. HTN-CM is primarily a disease of impaired ventricular relaxation rather than impaired contractility; thus patients …

  Published in Research & Reviews : A Journal of Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2020 Read article →