Role of left ventricular stiffness in heart failure with normal ejection fraction

D Westermann, M Kasner, P Steendijk, F Spillmann… - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
… relaxation and increased passive cardiac stiffness, supported by … the ventricular-arterial
stiffening contributes to heart failure … mechanisms leads to heart failure symptoms during exercise …

A novel mechanism of heart failure with normal ejection fraction

DH MacIver, M Townsend - Heart, 2008 - heart.bmj.com
heart failure and a normal left ventricular ejection fraction have significantly reduced left
ventricular … for this apparent paradox and suggests a new mechanism of “diastolic” heart failure. …

Prognostic Impact of Myocardial Interstitial Fibrosis in Non-Ischemic Heart Failure–Comparison Between Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction Heart Failure

T Aoki, Y Fukumoto, K Sugimura, M Oikawa… - Circulation …, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
ventricular (LV) stiffness in patients with heart failure (HF),4,5 and that the extent of myocardial
collagen is correlated with a reduction in LV ejection fraction (… fatal ventricular arrhythmia.…

Right ventricular ejection fraction is an independent predictor of survival in patients with moderate heart failure

P de Groote, A Millaire, C Foucher-Hossein… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
… We sought to study the relationship between survival and right ventricular ejection
fraction (RVEF) in a subgroup of patients with moderate congestive heart failure (CHF). …

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

MW Bloom, B Greenberg, T Jaarsma… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
… contracts to eject blood). b | Conversely, HFpEF is a clinical syndrome of heart failure in the
presence of preserved or normal left ventricular ejection fraction, with evidence of diastolic …

Hospitalization for heart failure in the presence of a normal left ventricular ejection fraction: results of the New York Heart Failure Registry

…, New York Heart Failure Consortium - Journal of the American …, 2004 - jacc.org
… Patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) at 24 medical centers in the New York metropolitan
area and found to have a left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction of ≥50% within seven days …

Chronic vagal stimulation for the treatment of low ejection fraction heart failure: results of the NEural Cardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure (NECTAR-HF) randomized …

F Zannad, GM De Ferrari, AE Tuinenburg… - European heart …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… The neural cardiac therapy for heart failurecardiac remodelling, improve cardiac function
and increase exercise capacity in symptomatic heart failure patients with severe left ventricular

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and …

WJ Paulus, C Tschöpe, JE Sanderson… - European heart …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… without depressed LVEF are better characterized by the term ‘HFNEF’ 36 or the term ‘heart
failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction’ 37 than by the term ‘DHF’. …

The association of left ventricular ejection fraction, mortality, and cause of death in stable outpatients with heart failure

JP Curtis, SI Sokol, Y Wang, SS Rathore, DT Ko… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
… of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in stable outpatients with heart failure (HF). … (HF)
occurs in patients with a full range of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Although LVEF is …

Treatment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction: an inconvenient truth!

WJ Paulus, JJM van Ballegoij - Journal of the American College of …, 2010 - jacc.org
heart failure (HF) trials were frequently neutral in heart failure with normal left ventricular
ejection fraction … positive in heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFREF). …