Echocardiography has emerged as the non-invasive method of choice to evaluate
congestive heart failure. In addition to its ability to assess systolic function, it has been …

Diastole has often been the forgotten portion of the cardiac cycle, especially in pediatrics.
Recent advances in the understanding of heart failure and its etiologies point out that the …

Over the past decade, Doppler echocardiography has become a well-established tool for the
diagnosis of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Unfortunately, in many clinical situations …

Echocardiography is the primary tool in the diagnosis and assessment of pediatric heart
disease, including abnormalities of ventricular function. This chapter focuses on the current …

Evidence of normal systolic left ventricular function has been reported in up to 30–40% of
patients with clinical signs of congestive heart failure, suggesting that diastolic dysfunction is …

The objective of this study was to determine the utility of Doppler tissue echocardiography in
the evaluation of diastolic filling and in discriminating between normal subjects and those …

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 …

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 …

Evaluation of diastolic filling of the heart has been difficult because of its complexity and the
numerous interrelated contributing factors. Previous determinations have depended on high …

Objective To extend noninvasive assessment. of diastolic cardiac function into the pediatric
age-group. Design This study was divided into two phases, the first of which was designed …