Doppler assessment of diastolic function has become a standard part of routine
echocardiographic examination and imparts information relevant to a patient's functional …

Doppler echocardiography is one of the most useful clinical tools for the assessment of left
ventricular (LV) diastolic function. Doppler indices of LV filling and pulmonary venous (PV) …

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 …

A number of recent community-based epidemiologic studies suggest that 40% to 50% of the
cases of heart failure have preserved left ventricular systolic function. Although diastolic …

In the past, evaluation of the myocardium has been limited to examining systolic function of
the heart. Recently, however, investigators have demonstrated that abnormalities of diastolic …

Recently, considerable effort has been directed toward the application of Doppler methods
for detecting diastolic dysfunction. Recordings of transmitral filling velocity as obtained from …

During the last 2 years, the use of pulsed Doppler echocardiography for assessing left
ventricular diastolic function has received increased attention. This method is based on …

Patients with heart disease frequently have abnormalities of systolic function. However, it is
now well recognised that abnormalities of diastolic function play a major role in producing …

Doppler tissue imaging is a technique that allows recording of the low Doppler shift
frequencies of high energy generated by the ventricular walls motion that are purposely …

It has now been a quarter of a century since the first description by Kitabatake and his
associates of the use of echo-Doppler to characterize the transmitral flow velocity curves in …