Prevalence, clinical characteristics, quality of life, and prognosis of patients with congestive heart failure and isolated left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

Rehospitalization Prognostic Factors in Patients with Heart Failure: a Prospective Follow-up Study

“…Similar to our results regarding the effect of this factor, Badano et al Analyzed and followed-up for 6 months 179 consecutively hospitalized patients and did not establish differences in clinical symptoms, rehospitalization rate and fatal events among patients with systolic and diastolic dysfunction [3,7].…”

“…LVEF>50% defines CHF with preserved left ventricular function (according to the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology). Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is defined in accordance with the established to date diagnostic criteria in patients with HF -presence of angiographic confirmation and/or a history of coronary heart attack and angina pectoris with respective clinical and electrocardiographic (ECG) characteristics [3].…”

2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

“…Długoter-minowe ryzyko pojawienia się objawów HF u osoby w wieku 55 lat wynosi 33% dla mężczyzn i 28% dla kobiet [16]. Odsetek pacjentów z HFpEF waha się między 22% a 73% i zależy od przyjętej definicji, okoliczności klinicznych (opieka podstawowa, oddział dzienny, szpital), wieku i płci badanej populacji, przebytego zawału serca (MI) oraz daty publikacji [17,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”

Echocardiographic evaluation of diastolic heart failure

“…The strength of a combined use of the two modalities was observed in studies 57 , when MV inflow parameters and PV flow Doppler were combined; 93% of patients suspected of HFNEF showed evidence of DD 58 . Unlike mitral inflow velocities, there have been limited studies in ascertaining the prognostic role of PV flow.…”