Is echocardiographic evaluation of diastolic function useful in determining clinical care? Doppler echocardiography yields dubious estimates of left ventricular diastolic pressures

Circulation. 2009 Sep 1;120(9):810-20; discussion 820. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.869628.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Diastole
  • Echocardiography, Doppler / standards*
  • Heart Failure, Diastolic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Failure, Diastolic / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Prognosis
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology
  • Ventricular Pressure