Mechanistic validation of the 2016 American Society of Echocardiography/European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Guidelines for the assessment of diastolic dysfunction in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Ythan H GoldbergDavid MegyessiMischa FlamDaniel M SpevackMartin G SundqvistMartin UganderPublished in: Cardiovascular ultrasound (2020)
Higher grade DD was associated with changes in the mechanical properties that determine the physics of poorer left ventricular filling. These findings provide mechanistic insight into, and independent validation of the appropriateness of the 2016 guidelines for assessment of DD.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- acute myocardial infarction
- clinical practice
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- high resolution
- blood pressure
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- photodynamic therapy
- coronary artery disease
- aortic valve
- acute heart failure
- acute coronary syndrome
- fluorescence imaging
- percutaneous coronary intervention