All subjects underwent Doppler echocardiography ... those with moderate-to-severe diastolic dysfunction had reduced ejection fractions (≤50%). Six of 13 people with severe diastolic dysfunction ...

To figure out what is happening, doctors usually order an echocardiogram to measure the heart’s ejection fraction (EF). EF is a percentage of how much of the blood inside the left ventricle gets ...

This study investigated whether mechanical dysfunction in the left atrium (LA) is present in patients with either physiological or pathological LVH, using two-dimensional strain rate imaging (2D ...