A 70 year old Hispanic male has suffered from chronic hypertension for over a decade, with minimal benefit from medical treatments.

Part 1: Choose a condition from the following case studies: Ventricular Hypertrophy, Endometrial Hyperplasia, Reperfusion Injury (Week 1 Case Study Details).

Ventricular Hypertrophy
A 70 year old Hispanic male has suffered from chronic hypertension for over a decade, with minimal benefit from medical treatments. Evaluation of heart function revealed that he has a reduced ejection fraction as a consequence of left ventricular hypertrophy.

Part 2: The following must be addressed:

Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis.

Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level evidence.

Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations.
Include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss
treatments specifically aimed for your patient.

Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course text is required. If you are unclear about what is considered high level evidence, please review content from your Evidence Based Nursing Practice Course.