Is electrocardiography plus limited echocardiography a cost-effective alternative to electrocardiography alone for diagnosing LVH in young, newly identified hypertensives?
Adding limited echocardiography to ECG may be an economically feasible strategy for detecting LVH in young hypertensive patients, though long-term outcome data are needed.
LVH detection by ECG plus limited echocardiography may be an economically feasible alternative to ECG due to increased accuracy. However, final recommendations require analysis of long-term effects on morbidity, mortality, quality of life, and subsequent treatment costs between the diagnostic approaches.
Leese et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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