Abnormalities of diastolic filling are increasingly recognized as a cause of symptoms and
predictors of outcome in patients with most forms of heart disease. Noninvasive assessment …

Heart failure is defined as the pathologic state in which the heart is unable to pump blood at
a rate required by the metabolizing tissues or can do so only with an elevated filling …

Objectives. We sought to study the relationship between survival and right ventricular
ejection fraction (RVEF) in a subgroup of patients with moderate congestive heart failure …

BACKGROUND Dilated cardiomyopathy is an important cause of morbidity and mortality
among patients with congestive heart failure. Hemodynamic and prognostic characterization …

OBJECTIVES.: The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of the mitral flow
velocity curves to left ventricular filling pressures in patients with two different types of …

Doppler mitral flow velocities and related variables are used to assess left (LV) and right
ventricular filling and, indirectly, ventricular diastolic function. Three abnormal ventricular …

Objectives. This study was designed to determine whether Doppler echocardiographic
transmitral flow patterns can predict cardiac mortality in patients with congestive heart …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the significance of increased left atrial (LA)
volume determined within the first 48 h of admission as a long-term predictor of outcome in …

Objectives. This study sought to analyze the determinants of pulmonary hypertension in
patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Background. Pulmonary hypertension in patients …

OBJECTIVES.: This study sought to investigate the relative and incremental prognostic value
of demographic, historical, clinical, echocardiographic and mitral Doppler variables in …