Impairment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function ... A and normal E:E'; elevated end-diastolic pressure (group 2) indicates normal age-specific E/A and high E/E' and confirmed by the ...

Heart rate control is essential to improving ventricular filling ... increase in end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes and pressures and a passive increase in left atrial and pulmonary venous ...

The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension may impair atrial ... LV mass index and ejection fraction were comparable between patients with either physiological or ...

Septal circumferential strain (Ecc) was significantly decreased in LGE-negative boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) ...

These four chambers include: The right and left ... diastole is a classic finding of mitral stenosis. Mitral regurgitation is when the faulty valve allows blood to leak backward from the left ...

Left ventricular parietal wall thickness and left ventricular end-diastolic diameters were significantly higher in athletes. Both athletes and ARVC patients presented a right ventricular (RV) ...

The heart muscle consists of the following: Two upper chambers (right and left atria ... it occurs right after S2 in diastole. S3 reflects rapid ventricle stretching (distension) as blood quickly ...

In infants with cardiomyopathy-associated chronic HF, baseline LVEF of less than 40% and β blocker use indicate a decreased chance of LVEF normalization.