Diastolic failure is very different in that it affects mainly the left ventricle. When there are certain conditions -- and sometimes it just happens as we get older -- certain conditions where the ...

In systolic heart failure, the heart can't squeeze blood properly to the body, whereas in diastolic heart failure, the heart becomes stiffened and the blood vessels also stiffen.

Many people who are diagnosed with heart failure don't actually have a failing heart. New ways of diagnosing diastolic heart failure are being trialled in the U.S.

Researchers find comparable long-term outcomes between diastolic, systolic heart failure patients Date: January 9, 2014 Source: Boston University Medical Center Summary: A new study has found ...

Symptoms There is not much difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure, as most of the symptoms appear to be same. The difference between these two forms is that a patient with ...

How to treat the many heart failure patients who present with preserved ejection fraction has remained a question -- now PEP-CHF reports the benefit of RAS inhibition in these patients.

Martha Kerr Oct. 9, 2003 (New Orleans) — A study of patients with heart failure cared for by family physicians revealed that 73% of the practitioners did not identify diastolic dysfunction on ...

Thus, classifying heart failure into systolic and diastolic heart failure on the basis of ejection fraction is somewhat misleading as it implies a primary or dominating mechanism to which therapy ...

Mortality among these patients may be as high as that among patients with systolic heart failure, and the rates of hospitalization in the two groups are equal. 36 The diagnosis of diastolic heart ...

How ‘diastolic heart failure’ should be defined has been the topic of considerable discussion and uncertainty. 51, 52 Without entering into a debate on current diagnostic criteria, which are ...

“Our findings showed that older adults who have low diastolic blood pressure but not low systolic blood pressure were more likely to develop new-onset heart failure than those with higher levels of ...

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists should be considered as a treatment option in hypertensive patients with diastolic heart failure, said Professor Burkert Pieske presenting results today of ...