UNMASKING DIASTOLIC FAILURE

[Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure].

There are frequent clinical Cases in Cardiological practice when cardiac failure develops together with normal systolic function of left ventricle. In these patients after revealing the diastolic dysfunction the heart diastolic failure is diagnosed, but in frequent cases this diagnosis is based on exclusion method. According to Framingham data the number of patients with clinically manifested d...

Diastolic heart failure.

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...

Defining diastolic heart failure.

The diagnosis of diastolic heart failure suggested by Vasan and Levy1 and Grossman,2 as definite, probable, or possible, presently hinges on the demonstration of diastolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction at cardiac catheterization or echocardiography. It is likely that a far simpler measure, which is based on an analysis of the arterial pulse measured noninvasively, can be used. The studies o...