June 27, 2011 (Cleveland, Ohio) — Nearly two-thirds of outpatients with a normal LVEF when referred for echocardiography also had LV diastolic dysfunction, and moderate or severe diastolic dysfunction ...

Higher is not necessarily better when it comes to left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), according to a retrospective study. Compared with an LVEF of 60-65%, both reduced and elevated LVEFs were ...

Heart failure (HF) comprises overlapping phenotypes affecting contractile and diastolic function to variable extents. Thus, while systolic HF is characterized by reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In women with suspected ischemia, those with a high left ventricular ejection fraction have reduced risk for ...

PRAGUE, Czechia—In patients with an ejection fraction > 40% recovering from a worsening heart failure (HF) event, sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto; Novartis) led to greater reductions in NT-proBNP ...

Obesity is a major public health epidemic and is associated with increased risk of heart failure and mortality. We evaluated the impact of body mass index (BMI) on the prevalence of diastolic ...