Diastolic heart failure (HF) as defined by the symptoms and signs of HF, preserved ejection fraction and abnormal diastolic function is estimated to occur in half of all patients presenting with HF. Patients with preserved ejection fraction are older and more often female. The underlying etiology of HF differs, with hypertension being more common in patients with preserved ejection fraction and...

ACCORDING TO THE EJECTION FRACTION, PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE MAY BE DIVIDED INTO TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS: heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction. In recent years, accumulating studies showed that increased mortality and morbidity rates of these two groups are nearly equal. More importantly, despite decline in mortality after treatment in regard to current guideline in patient...

OBJECTIVE To assess the early changes in left ventricular diastolic and systolic function due to anthracycline treatment. DESIGN A prospective study of cardiac function by radionuclide angiography in adults before and one month after the end of anthracycline treatment. PATIENTS 60 patients without cardiac disease treated with chemotherapy containing anthracycline. METHODS Cardiac function...

introduction: cardiovascular abnormalities have been reported in liver cirrhosis (lc). in these patients, cardiac symptoms and physical signs occur as the liver functions worsen. cirrhosis is associated with hyper dynamic circulation and beta-adrenergic system changes responsible for the cardiovascular abnormalities. the purpose of the present study was to explore the echocardiographic findings...