Is diastolic wall strain (DWS) associated with adverse remodelling and poor outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?
Diastolic wall strain is a useful, simple index for assessing diastolic stiffness and predicting worse outcomes in patients with HFpEF.
These data suggest that DWS, a simple index, is useful in assessing diastolic stiffness and that more advanced diastolic stiffness is associated with worse outcomes in HFpEF.
Ohtani et al. (Tue,) studied this question.