Conventional echocardiography combined ... a special emphasis on the detection of subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic dysfunction, and the timely identification of risk ...

Aims Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) appears to be very common in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction but details on ...

HF guidelines place a special emphasis on the detection of subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic ... dysfunction is important for early diagnosis and intervention ...

Apparently healthy obese individuals can, however, exhibit subclinical left ventricular dysfunction ... pump efficiently (systolic dysfunction) or fill adequately (diastolic dysfunction).

However, it has also been suggested that physical training attenuates the age-associated impairment of diastolic filling. This study investigated whether mechanical dysfunction in the left atrium (LA) ...

Both hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy have important roles in cardiovascular complications in these individuals. Moreover, biventricular diastolic dysfunction, endothelial dysfunction ...