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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 21, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(20):2421-2423; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm412
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure—a consensus statement

Liv Hatle*

Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim 7005, Norway

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34 972 660871. E-mail address: livhatle@eresmas.net

This editorial refers to ‘How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology’ by W.J. Paulus et al., on page 2539

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With the increasing incidence of heart failure due mainly to diastolic dysfunction, a consensus statement on how to diagnose diastolic heart failure is clearly important. The paper by Paulus and co-authors represents a significant effort.1 It contains a detailed discussion on whether diastolic heart failure represents a separate entity, or whether it is an early stage where systolic function is only mildly impaired, but with later progression to more severe dysfunction. Newer information on possible mechanisms for the diastolic dysfunction is discussed, and there is clearly more to be learned in this area. However, it is not easy to see diastolic heart failure as a separate single entity when several different diseases can result in cardiac involvement with predominantly diastolic dysfunction.

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How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology
Walter J. Paulus, Carsten Tschöpe, John E. Sanderson, Cesare Rusconi, Frank A. Flachskampf, Frank E. Rademakers, Paolo Marino, Otto A. Smiseth, Gilles De Keulenaer, Adelino F. Leite-Moreira, Attila Borbély, István Édes, Martin Louis Handoko, Stephane Heymans, Natalia Pezzali, Burkert Pieske, Kenneth Dickstein, Alan G. Fraser, and Dirk L. Brutsaert
EHJ 2007 28: 2539-2550. [Abstract] [Full Text]  



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