Introduction In echocardiography (EC), classification of diastolic dysfunction (DD) is widely accepted and mainly assessed using three criteria (figure1): mitral blood flow (MBF, E-A-curve), lateral wall velocity (LWV, S-E`-A`-curve) and pulmonary vein flow (PVF, S-D-AR-curve). With these three characteristic flow and velocity patterns and their ratios E/A, E/E ́ and S/D, regular diastolic funct...
