The role of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in health and disease is still incompletely
understood and underappreciated by most primary care physicians and many cardiologists …

Use uf mitral Bow vebxity reeordlugs to assess left veotrtwlar 6lliog and diastolic function.
Mitral flow velocity recordings obtained with pulsed wave Doppler technique have been …

Diabetes mellitus is associated with a high mortality from cardiac disease attributed to
coronary artery atherosclerosis or systemic hypertension. Increasing evidence indicates that …

Transmitral flow velocity pattern obtained by the pulsed Doppler technique reflects left
ventricular (LV) diastolic function, but an increase in left atrial pressure pseudonormalizes …

We evaluated diastolic filling patterns using Doppler echocardiography in 520 consecutive
patients referred to our laboratory for transthoracic echocardiograms retrospectively and …

The present investigation was undertaken in 12 normal subjects to determine the magnitude
of technical and biologic variability of six previously validated Doppler indexes of diastolic …

• During the last six years, there has been increased interest In the detection of
abnormalities of left ventricular diastolic function in patients with heart disease. Before 1981 …

OBJECTIVE--To investigate possible discrepancies between M mode and Doppler
echocardiography in assessing early diastolic filling. DESIGN--Forty seven patients with left …

Prognosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) is variable. We determined the
prognostic value of left ventricular (LV) mass and systolic and diastolic function in patients …

The prognostic values of tissue Doppler imaging and color M-mode diastolic indexes were
studied in 225 patients who had symptomatic systolic heart failure in the ADEPT study. The …