The E/A ratio will be < 1 with Valsalva. A major clue to the presence of grade II diastolic dysfunction as compared to normal diastolic function is the presence of structural heart disease such as ...

Diastolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 4, while systolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 6. Often, grade 1 systolic/diastolic murmurs are not discernible to inexperienced clinicians ...

Objective: Because a pseudonormal pattern of ventricular filling has never been considered in studies that reported a prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) between 20 and 40% ...

Recent HF guidelines, therefore, place special emphasis on the detection of subclinical LV dysfunction ... (group 1) indicates low age-specific E:A and normal E:E'; elevated end-diastolic pressure ...

(A) Image from 50-year-old male PLWH with increased coronary vessel wall thickness of 1.5 mm and grade 1 diastolic dysfunction. (B) Image from 52-year-old male PLWH with coronary vessel wall ...