… studied 413 consecutive hospitalized patients with a principal diagnosis of chronic heart
failure at an academic medical center. Of these, 29% had systolic dysfunction, 28% had …

… preserved systolic function is often obscure. As a result, the terms “diastolic heart failure” and
“clinical heart failure with preserved systolic function” … was to characterize the clinical and …

… interest in the syndrome of CHF associated with “preserved” LV systolic function (1–5). The
… clinical characteristics, and prognosis of patients with HF and preserved LV systolic function …

… clinical entity of LV diastolic and RV systolic HF often remains underdiagnosed, which leads
to delays in treatment with possible adverse outcomes. LV diastolic dysfunction … RV systolic …

… CRS was recognized as a clinical entity in 2004, when the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI) working group defined CRS as a state of extreme cardiorenal dysregulation …

… A subset of patients with heart failure (HF) and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) …
HF population and clinically distinct from those with persistently preserved or reduced EF. …

… (58.5%) and preserved systolic function in 41.5%. Mean age … with systolic dysfunction and
preserved systolic function (2.9… with systolic dysfunction and 76% for patients with preserved …

… preserved systolic function (PSF), typically defined as symptomatic HF occurring in the setting
of a measured left ventricular (LV… as extensively as HF with systolic dysfunction. The limited …

… c statistic 0.68 for clinical variables only versus 0.71 for clinical plus LV hypertrophy; P=…
-validated c statistic 0.68 for clinical variables only versus 0.71 for clinical plus LV hypertrophy; P=…

… preserved systolic function HF, a significant number may progress to systolic dysfunction with
or without clinical … Of the 99 patients (47%) with preserved LV systolic function we excluded …