Key result
Diastolic heart failure causes significant morbidity and requires etiology-specific management, with echocardiography serving as the most useful diagnostic tool.
Population
Patients with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction / diastolic heart failure
Design
Review
Authors
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Emphasizes etiology-specific management for diastolic HF; leaves open prospective validation of echocardiography-based diagnosis.
Diastolic heart failure requires clinical suspicion for diagnosis, primarily relies on echocardiography, and its management depends largely on the underlying etiology.
Clarkson et al. (1994) conducted a review in Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Diastolic heart failure causes significant morbidity and requires etiology-specific management, with echocardiography serving as the most useful diagnostic tool.
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