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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

What are the grades of diastolic dysfunction measured by echocardiography, and what are the clinical ramifications of each? Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2015), pp. 521-526 (6 pages) AbstractPrevious studies have suggested that pulmonary hypertension (PH) in severe aortic stenosis (AS) is a risk factor ...

Revascularization and medical therapy are safe and effective methods of coronary artery disease (CAD) treatment. 1 The conservative approach has recently gained more attention following comparative ...