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ASE Echocardiographic Evaluation of LV Diastolic Function
 - Myocardial Function and LV Filling
 - Criteria for
Evaluation of LV Diastolic ... Diagnosis of LV Diastolic ... Dysfunction - Relation ... Pressures - LV Relaxation ... Findings According to Diastolic
Diastolic Function Grading - Schematic diastolic filling patterns

I: impaired relaxation, II: moderate diastolic dysfunction (pseudonormal), III:
Diastolic Function ... Grading - Schematic diastolic ... I: impaired relaxation ... , II: moderate diastolic ... Diagnosis #Cardiology #Diastolic
Pathophysiological mechanisms of diastolic heart failure HFpEF and possible therapeutic interventions.
Hypertension → Overload
Diabetes → Oxidative stress,
mechanisms of diastolic ... perivascular fibrosis → Diastolic ... relaxation defect ... Decreased output #diastolic
Diastolic Dysfunction Grading - Echocardiography
Grade 0  (Normal):
 • E/A >0.8, e’ > 8 cm/s, E/e’
Diastolic Dysfunction ... Grade 1 (Impaired Relaxation ... 8 • Impaired Relaxation ... Decrease in LV Muscle Relaxation ... #diastology #Diastolic
Right heart dysfunction and failure in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: mechanisms and management 
Source:
IVRT, isovolumic relaxation ... ventricular end‐diastolic ... ventricular end‐diastolic
The cardiac cycle describes each heart beat, incorporating relaxation and contraction. Phase one describes diastole and
incorporating relaxation ... one describes diastole ... slightly during diastole ... but falls during diastole ... Stages #Systole #Diastole
Normal hepatic vein Doppler Ultrasound tracing
1) a large antegrade waveform (negative velocity) noted during early and
result of atrial relaxation ... early and mid-diastole ... noted in late diastole
RA/CVP Waveform Interpretation

Central venous pressure (CVP) or right atrial pressure (RAP) waveform tracings can often times
contraction at end diastole ... x’ descent (RA relaxation ... filling in early diastole
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy on Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber View

RCM is a disease of diastole —> severe
is a disease of diastole ... restricted filling/relaxation
Hepatic Vein Waveform

a wave - atrial contraction (end diastole)
S - ventricular systole
v - increasing RA pressure
contraction (end diastole ... systole D - early diastolic