"In patients with mild diastolic dysfunction, the mitral E/A ratio is 0.8, DT is 200 ms, IVRT is 100 ms, predominant systolic flow is seen in pulmonary venous flow (S D), annular e= is 8 cm/s, and ...

Diastolic dysfunction is a heart condition that affects the organ’s capacity to fill with an adequate amount of blood during diastole. Diastole is the phase of the cardiac cycle when the heart ...

Diastolic dysfunction was classified as mild, moderate, or severe in 60.0%, 4.8%, and 0.4% of the overall cohort, respectively. Mortality was 16% overall during a mean follow-up of 6.2 years, and ...

Mortality Rate in Patients With Diastolic Dysfunction and Normal Systolic Function. Archives of Internal Medicine , 2011; 171 (12): 1082-1087 DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.244 ...

A less invasive test commonly used to diagnose coronary disease also may be used to detect one of the leading causes of heart failure. By using a nuclear stress test to look at how fast blood ...

Carelog announced its ECG-based algorithm received FDA breakthrough device designation for detection of diastolic dysfunction, an early predictor of HF with preserved ejection fraction.The ...

The transmitral flow velocity was measured with the use of pulsed-wave ... Vasan, RS, Levy, D. Defining diastolic heart failure: a call for standardized diagnostic criteria. Circulation 2000 ...

There is increasing evidence that myocardial fibrosis plays a role in the pathogenesis of diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive heart disease. However, it has been difficult to explore the ...

Long-term survivors of pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer are more likely to have diastolic dysfunction, suggesting early cardiac aging, compared with controls who were never exposed to ...

When diastolic dysfunction is diagnosed, it is by echocardiography (ECG), which enables assessment of diastolic relaxation and ventricular stiffness and thickening. It may also provide clues as to ...