May 29, 2012Open Access

Diastolic stiffness as assessed by diastolic wall strain is associated with adverse remodelling and poor outcomes in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Structured PICO

Is diastolic wall strain (DWS) associated with adverse remodelling and poor outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?

Population

Patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)

Intervention

Assessment of diastolic stiffness using diastolic wall strain (DWS)

Outcome

Adverse remodelling and poor outcomes

Diastolic wall strain is a useful, simple index for assessing diastolic stiffness and predicting worse outcomes in patients with HFpEF.

Abstract

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.

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Ohtani et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd1d36854f360ad6359af3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehs135

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