Diastolic heart failure causes a stiff left ventricle that prevents the heart from relaxing between beats. Common symptoms include coughing, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Systolic and ...

A murmur is either systolic, diastolic or continuous throughout systole ... describes the change of intensity throughout the cardiac cycle. Murmurs are either crescendo, decrescendo, crescendo ...

Diastolic dysfunction is a heart condition that happens when there is a “stiffening” of the major pumping chambers of the organ (ventricles). This stiffness gets in the way of the heart’s ...