Diastolic dysfunction in the presence of impaired systolic dysfunction is associated with mortality, but a new study has found that diastolic dysfunction in patients with normal systolic function is ...

June 27, 2011 (Cleveland, Ohio) — Nearly two-thirds of outpatients with a normal LVEF when referred for echocardiography also had LV diastolic dysfunction, and moderate or severe diastolic dysfunction ...

Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing blood out of the heart to the arteries, which ...

Recently, while preparing an updated presentation to the Saint Louis University cardiology fellows on "diastolic dysfunction," the Skeptical Cardiologist came across a document entitled "What Does ...