The diagnosis and treatment of isolated diastolic failure is often a challenge, since the symptoms are so similar to systolic heart failure. It is important to distinguish between diastolic heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is Diastolic Heart Failure? If you have diastolic heart failure, the left ventricle of your heart has become stiff and bulky. So, your heart can’t fill up with as much blood as it needs. Less ...

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is non-compliant and not able to accept blood return in a normal fashion from the left atrium. This can be a normal physiologic change ...