Heart failure has been identified as a major health care initiative for the millennium. In the
United States alone there are more than 4· 9 million people with heart failure and 450 000 …

Mechanical performance of the heart depends on the physiologic interplay of its systolic and
diastolic function. However, the cardiologist is used to defining left ventricular (LV) function …

Diastole is the portion of the cardiac cycle that spans from isovolumic ventricular relaxation
to the Her exercise tolerance has been slowly declining completion of antegrade mitral flow …

Information about left ventricular function was traditionally provided primarily with measures
of systolic function. Including the assessment of diastolic function has become an integral …

Left ventricular (LV) diastolic function can be evaluated by echocardiographic indices of LV
relaxation/restoring forces, diastolic compliance, and filling pressure. By using a …

Tissue Doppler imaging in the evaluation of left ventricular... : Current Opinion in Cardiology
Tissue Doppler imaging in the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function : Current Opinion …

Diastole extends from the closure of the aortic valve to the end of the transmitral flow. It is
divided into four phases: an isovolumic relaxation phase, a rapid filling phase due to …

The importance of systolic ventricular dysfunction in the genesis of the signs and symptoms
of congestive heart failure has long been recognized. It has only been in the last decade that …

Abnormal diastolic function portends a poor prognosis regardless of any associated systolic
dysfunction. There is controversy regarding the precision with which diagnosis of diastolic …

Doppler echocardiography provides the ability to measure blood flow velocities
noinvasively. These blood flow velocities can be used to obtain powerful hemodynamic …