Key result
Diastolic stress test echocardiography may help identify patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction whose left ventricular diastolic abnormalities occur only during exercise.
Why the study?
Does diastolic stress test echocardiography improve the identification of left ventricular diastolic abnormalities compared to resting echocardiography in patients with HFPEF?
Does diastolic stress test echocardiography improve the identification of left ventricular diastolic abnormalities compared to resting echocardiography in patients with HFPEF?
Diastolic stress test echocardiography is a clinically relevant tool for diagnosing HFPEF in patients who only exhibit symptoms and diastolic abnormalities during exercise.
May aid exercise-symptom HFpEF evaluation; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
The diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) remains on the basis of echocardiographic analyses at rest. However, some patients with HFPEF have symptoms such as dyspnea only during exercise. Accordingly, echocardiographic analyses at rest could be insufficiently sensitive to identify these patients. In line, recent studies demonstrated that in some patients with HFPEF left ventricular diastolic abnormalities occur only during exercise. This review discusses and analyzes the clinical relevance and evidence of using diastolic stress test echocardiography in patients with HFPEF.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Belyavskiy et al. (2015) conducted a review in Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF). Diastolic stress test echocardiography vs. Echocardiographic analyses at rest was evaluated. Diastolic stress test echocardiography may help identify patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction whose left ventricular diastolic abnormalities occur only during exercise.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: