Ejection Fraction

Effect of Preoperative Ejection Fraction

Ninety-three patients with aortic valve disease were evaluated to determine the effect of the preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) on the results of aortic valve replacement (AVR). Forty-six patients had aortic stenosis (AS), 16 had aortic insufficiency (Al), and 31 had mixed aortic stenosis and insufficiency (MX). Immediate and long-term survival curves in AS and MX, and in AS ...

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association July 2015 | Vol 115 | No. 7 432 From Henry Ford Wyandotte Downriver Cardiology in Brownstown, Michigan (Dr Rogers); West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois (Dr Gundala); Oakwood Southshore Medical Center in Trenton, Michigan (Dr Ramos); and Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Illinois (Dr Serajian). Drs Gundala and Ramos are in their thir...

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Symptomatic heart failure, despite preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction, is a well-recognized phenomenon. This manifestation of diastolic dysfunction is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and can be attributed to a variety of pathogeneses, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, infiltrative processes, and obesity. Unlike in systolic heart failure, where LV ejecti...

Thermodilution right ventricular ejection fraction. Remaining questions.

T1 mapping across the ejection fraction spectrum

Methods 242 consecutive consenting patients referred for CMR between December 2014 and June 2015 were scanned on a 1.5T Magnetom Avanto (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen) using a MOLLI (WIP#448, 5:3:3 acquisition scheme, motion correction and automatically generated T1 map). In all cases on the basal short axis slice, a single, slender ROI was placed in the mid wall of the septum with meticulous at...