Checking your blood pressure at home or a local pharmacy can be an effective way to stay proactive about your heart health.

If you have diastolic heart failure, your left ventricle has become stiffer than usual, and your heart can't relax the way it should. Learn more about its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment ...

Echocardiographic analysis shows AVIM therapy improves diastolic function in hypertensive patients, potentially preventing heart failure. Quiver AI Summary Orchestra BioMed Holdings, Inc ...

Objective Mild aortic valve stenosis (AS) and aortic valve (AV) sclerosis are associated with diastolic dysfunction and increased mortality in the general population. This study specifically ...

While diastolic dysfunction is more prevalent in those with hypertension, CKD, and ESRD, the largest cohort (n=3,487) found that progressive renal dysfunction was associated with a higher prevalence ...

1 Introduction Chronic heart failure (CHF), an end-stage state of cardiovascular disease, is characterized by stagnation of the pulmonary or somatic circulation and insufficient systemic blood ...

Diastolic dysfunction more dangerous than previously thought Sudden cardiac death is a common cause of death in patients with reduced systolic ejection function.

Using Doppler echocardiography, diastolic heart failure can be classified into four grades, which include: Grade I – The E/A ratio is reversed on the mitral inflow echocardiogram.

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or diastolic heart failure, happens when the heart is still strong but it becomes stiff and can’t relax between beats or properly fill with blood 8.

We retrospectively studied 407 patients who underwent 2‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and were diagnosed with severe tricuspid regurgitation between January 2014 and December 2015.

Perspectives > Skeptical Cardiologist Op-Ed: Does Your Patient Really Have Diastolic Dysfunction? — The Skeptical Cardiologist highlights the confusion in "diastology" by Anthony Pearson, MD ...