Recently, while preparing an updated presentation to the Saint Louis University cardiology fellows on "diastolic dysfunction," the Skeptical Cardiologist came across a document entitled "What Does ...

Advancing stages of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction may be linked to all-cause mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement, according to data published in JACC: Cardiovascular ...

Advanced left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) in patients undergoing TAVR is linked with almost a fourfold increase in risk of postprocedural death as early as 30 days postprocedure, ...

Hypertension is a major cause of diastolic dysfunction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, with a significant contribution to cardiovascular and overall mortality. 1 Hypertension also ...

The natural history of subclinical systolic and diastolic LV dysfunction in the general population is currently unknown. Serial imaging studies are required to clarify the progression of LV changes ...

Repolarization dispersion has been linked to echocardiographic measures of diastolic dysfunction in past research, and a recent study found it potentially indicative of pulmonary arterial hypertension ...

Diagnosis of congestive heart failure can be made clinically in the vast majority of patients if the symptoms of pulmonary venous hypertension (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, orthopnea) and/or systemic ...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is associated with worse health status among patients with severe aortic stenosis, but TAVR leads to clinically meaningful symptomatic improvements regardless of ...

How would you manage a 60-year-old patient with elevated BP, congestive heart failure (CHF), normal heart size, and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and diastolic dysfunction confirmed on ...

Nocturnal hypertension is an important predictor of the progression of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with diabetes without HF. An important predictor for the progression of left ...

heart failure, doppler CKD patients with and without diastolic dysfunction had average serum phosphate levels of 7.3 and 5.5 mg/dL, respectively. Hyperphosphatemia and high calcium-phosphorus product, ...