Diastolic heart failure. Paroxysmal or chronic?

Diastolic heart failure: neglected or misdiagnosed?

Recent epidemiological studies suggest that 30% to 50% of patients with heart failure (HF) have preserved left ventricular (LV) systolic function. These patients, often presumed to have diastolic heart failure (DHF), appear to have lower short-term but similar long-term mortality when compared to patients with HF and LV systolic dysfunction. Rates of recurrent hospitalization and costs of care ...

Diastolic heart failure: fact or fiction?

Correspondence to: Professor John E Sanderson, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong; jesanderson@ cuhk.edu.hk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he concept of ‘‘diastolic’’ heart failure grew out of the observation that many patients who had the symptoms and signs of heart failure had an apparently normal ...

Diastolic Heart Failure

Diastolic heart failure.

to the editor: Zile et al. (May 6 issue) 1 conclude that heart failure develops in patients with a normal ejection fraction because of abnormal active and passive diastolic function. However, the applicability of this conclusion to all such patients is uncertain for several reasons. First, accurate assessment of left ventricular volume, on which the conclusions critically depend, requires a thr...

Diastolic heart failure.