June 13, 2011 (Montreal, Quebec City) — Among patients with heart failure and very low LV ejection fraction, having better diastolic function--an E/e' ratio lower than 10.8--predicted preserved ...

Patients who experienced clinical but not echocardiographic response to cardiac resynchronization therapy experienced significant improvements in left ventricular diastolic function in a recent study.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Abnormalities of left ventricular function were associated with exercise capacity, according to a ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of left ...

Renal denervation not only reduces resistant hypertension but also decreases left ventricular (LV) mass and improves diastolic function in patients with hypertensive heart disease, according to a new ...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is associated with worse health status among patients with severe aortic stenosis, but TAVR leads to clinically meaningful symptomatic improvements regardless of ...

A follow-up of participants in a heart function study finds that the prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (left ventricular filling [with blood] is abnormal and is accompanied by ...

A recent study published in BMC Public Health investigated the associations between abnormal left ventricular diastolic function (ALVDF) and ambient air pollution. Study: Air pollution is associated ...

Laboratory of Human Movement (EA3608), Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Lille 2, France Professor Philippe Obert, University of Avignon, Faculty of Sciences, rue Louis Pasteur, Avignon 84000, ...

Repolarization dispersion has been linked to echocardiographic measures of diastolic dysfunction in past research, and a recent study found it potentially indicative of pulmonary arterial hypertension ...