June 13, 2011 (Montreal, Quebec City) — Among patients with heart failure and very low LV ejection fraction, having better diastolic function--an E/e' ratio lower than 10.8--predicted preserved ...

The latest document with expert guidelines on diastolic function measurement by echo lists 16 of these parameters. Understandably, general cardiologists (who read most echocardiograms), ...

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 ...

Diastolic dysfunction predicted mortality in patients with normal systolic function. Halley CM. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1082-1087. Piña IL. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1088-1089.

After propensity matching to limit the confounding effects of factors such as hypertension, age, diabetes, and obesity, the hazard ratio for mortality with moderate diastolic dysfunction was 1.58 ...

Patent covers use of AI-ECG for any echo measure of diastolic function, which is crucial for heart screening and early detection of heart diseaseSouthlake, Texas, April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE ...

We investigated the impact of lowering blood pressure (BP) with azelnidipine, a newly developed calcium channel blocker, generation on the left ventricular (LV) diastolic function and LV filling ...

Objectives Seventeen male participants (mean (SD) (range): age 33.5 (6.5) years (46–26 years), body mass 80 (9.2) kg (100–63 kg), height 1.81 (0.06) m (1.93– 1.70 m)) ran a marathon to investigate the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Omecamtiv mecarbil, a selective cardiac myosin activator, improved diastolic function and pulmonary pressures without worsening diastolic filling in patients with chronic HF and ...

A follow-up of participants in a heart function study finds that the prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (left ventricular filling [with blood] is abnormal and is accompanied by ...

Asked why diastolic dysfunction wouldn’t have more of an influence on health status after TAVR, Malik said it’s likely that before the procedure most of the symptoms patients were experiencing were ...