or diastolic stiffness (based on echocardiography). The problem with this definition lies mainly in the third criterion. Since the echocardiographic criteria are somewhat complex, the predictive ...

What Is Diastolic Heart ... of congestive failure such as rales in the lungs, and an elevated jugular venous pressure. The chest x-ray shows signs of congestion, and an echocardiogram shows ...

Diastolic dysfunction ... manifestations of diastolic congestive heart failure. There are four grades of diastolic dysfunction as described below. Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose ...

Echocardiography ... Contemporary guidelines recommend diuretic therapy and treatment with sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for acute heart failure to reduce congestion and ...

Heart failure is a syndrome, not a specific disease, and occurs as a final common pathway in multiple disease states. The section presents a review of diastolic congestive heart failure ...