How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology
Population
Patients with suspected diastolic heart failure or heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection…
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Implication
Supports HFNEF diagnosis in practice; leaves open prospective validation against outcomes.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with suspected diastolic heart failure or heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction (HFNEF)
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Intervention
Updated diagnostic criteria using clinical signs, echocardiography, tissue Doppler, and natriuretic peptides
This consensus statement provides updated diagnostic criteria for heart failure with normal ejection fraction, integrating clinical symptoms, echocardiographic parameters, and natriuretic peptides.
Cite This Study
Paulus et al. (2007) studied this question.