Recently, while preparing an updated presentation to the Saint Louis University cardiology fellows on "diastolic dysfunction," the Skeptical Cardiologist came across a document entitled "What Does ...

Hypertension is believed to be the single greatest factor influencing the development of heart failure, particularly heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, also known as diastolic heart ...

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the heart's ventricles stiffen and can't fill with blood properly. Diastolic heart failure ...

New research highlights the impact of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) on mortality risk after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) but also how deadly right ventricular ...

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 ...