The hibernating heart: reversible left ventricular dysfunction in chronic heart failure

Chronic Left Ventricular Heart Failure

The effect of the vasodilator prazosin vs placebo on exercise duration until marked dyspnea, and on left ventricular function measured by echocardiography, was evaluated in a double-blind, randomized study in 24 patients with chronic left ventricular failure despite digitalis and diuretic therapy. Compared with the double-blind placebo, prazosin reduced resting systolic and diastolic blood pres...

Reversible heart failure with left ventricular dysfunction in a postpartum woman with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Multiple pulmonary infarcts and reversible left ventricular dysfunction in a patient with chronic heart disease.

A 36-year-old woman with chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) with moderate mitral regurgitation, on oral penicillin prophylaxis for 6 years, developed progressive effort intolerance and severe chest discomfort over 1 week. Initial evaluation on hospitalisation revealed moderate respiratory distress at respiratory rate of 35/minute, sinus tachycardia at 120/ minute with blood pressure of 118/ ...

Diastolic heart failure, diastolic left ventricular dysfunction and exercise intolerance.

The phenomenon of “diastolic heart failure” is rightly receiving greater attention (1–4); community-based studies such as those in Framingham (5) and Olmsted County (6) show that up to 50% of older persons with heart failure do not have impaired left ventricular (LV) systolic function to account for this, and that the condition is usually associated with LV hypertrophy and is preceded by elevat...

"Diastolic heart failure" or heart failure caused by subtle left ventricular systolic dysfunction?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether patients with suspected heart failure but preserved systolic function, as determined by conventional echocardiographic measures (often said to have "diastolic heart failure), might have subtle left ventricular systolic dysfunction detectable by a new measure of left ventricular systolic function-left ventricular systolic atrioventricular plane displacement. DES...