A: Atrial mitral inflow; E: Early mitral inflow; E': Early diastolic annular velocity. Data from [9]. Heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. HF guidelines place a special ...

Diastolic murmurs ... diastolic), and mitral or tricuspid stenosis (mid-late diastolic). Tricuspid stenosis is very rare and is discussed further in the valvular heart disease section.

Atrial myxomas are slow-growing tumors that may obstruct mitral valve inflow ... greater hemodynamic dysfunction: the mitral valve area is 1.5 cm 2 or smaller, and the diastolic pressure half ...

Previous studies have used a broad and heterogeneous variety of diagnostic criteria to define HF, normal systolic function, and diastolic dysfunction, accounting for the significant variation in ...