Left ventricular diastolic function dysfunction and failure

Needless to say, diastolic dysfunction constitutes half, or nearly so, of the heart failure problem. Levine and Grossman were probably the first to observe that 40-50% of patients with symptoms had normal ejection fraction; other names include Dirk Brutsaert who delimitated the physiological borderline of diastole, Beverly Lorell, William Gaasch and Martin Le Winter who published the previous review books on the subject, and Walter Paulus who was in charge of the recommendations of the European Working Group on diastolic dysfunction, an essential reading.

Tag: Cardiologia