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 ...

June 17, 2011 (Montreal, Quebec City) — In patients presenting with ACS, the newer echo technique of speckle tracking can help predict risk of death, researchers report [1]. This technique, which ...

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, ...

January 31, 2012 (Cleveland, Ohio) — About one-fourth of patients initially with normal LVEF who had follow-up echocardiography up to two years later showed either improved or worsened diastolic ...

Furthermore, because these data were mainly derived from studies performed in otherwise healthy subjects with isolated obesity, the limitations of this evidence must be recognized. Very few data exist ...

Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of mortality in patients with DMD. Compared with their healthy counterparts, patients with DMD — including those with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction ...

Individuals with diastolic dysfunction (an abnormality involving impaired relaxation of the heart's ventricle [pumping chamber] after a contraction) appear to have an increased risk of death, ...

Men and women, aged 20–80 years, with a history of stage 1 or 2 essential hypertension (mean BP measurement of >140 mm Hg systolic or >90 mm Hg diastolic) were screened for inclusion by assessing ...

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 ...

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, ...