Assessing diastolic function with echocardiography
An accurate assessment of diastolic function can be both diagnostic and prognostic. Diastolic dysfunction often precedes systolic dysfunction or even clinical signs of heart disease, and the degree of diastolic dysfunction present can inform prognosis and treatment in not only heart failure patients but diseases as diverse as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), aortic stenosis and primary […]
