Sentence examples for mild diastolic dysfunction from inspiring English sources

Heart ultrasound revealed mild diastolic dysfunction with preserved ejection fraction and no valvular disease.

Diastolic dysfunction is itself a major risk factor, and even mild diastolic dysfunction increases mortality risk (16).

In patients with suspected or proven HFpEF, natriuretic peptides are elevated mainly in subjects with advanced diastolic dysfunction but are frequently normal in mild diastolic dysfunction.

The total prevalence of LVDD in this study population was 23.7%: 14.5% had mild diastolic dysfunction and 9.2% had moderate or severe diastolic dysfunction.

Novel therapy is in urgent need since even mild diastolic dysfunction in diabetic hearts has been shown to be associated with more than a threefold increase in all-cause mortality [ 215].

The results of the study by Rungatscher and colleagues [ 1] for deep hypothermia suggest that levosimendan could potentially also be used to reverse the mild diastolic dysfunction that occurs in many patients during moderate hypothermia.

Impaired relaxation pattern (mild LV diastolic dysfunction) was defined as E/A ratio < 0.75 and systolic dominant pulmonary venous flow.

Compared to controls, diabetic rats developed mild systolic and diastolic dysfunction, which was attenuated by fasudil.

In this study, we could demonstrate that natriuretic peptides do not accurately predict mild or moderate diastolic dysfunction, but are a very valuable tool to identify patients with severe diastolic dysfunction.

This thereby substantiated concerns in earlier reports that this estimation of LV filling pressure may be a less sensitive measure of diastolic function, especially in metabolic disease with its predominantly mild degree of diastolic dysfunction [ 18, 29].

Epirubicin cardiotoxicity was also evident, although to a lesser extent, in Twin B as shown by 1- the prenatal findings of an isolated mild right ventricular diastolic dysfunction (reflecting the greater after load of this ventricle in the fetal circulation) and 2- postnatal recording of increased Tn1, associated to a transient left ventricular septal hypokinesia [ 51].