All subjects underwent Doppler echocardiography. Twenty-one percent of subjects had mild diastolic dysfunction, and 7% had moderate-to-severe diastolic dysfunction; only a quarter of those with ...

There are four grades of diastolic dysfunction as described below. Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose diastolic dysfunction. Grade I (impaired relaxation): This is a normal finding ...

In occasional patients, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, pulmonary function tests, exercise echo-Doppler ... that clinical heart failure with preserved systolic function (diastolic heart failure ...

—Previous echocardiography studies have suggested that diastolic dysfunction may precede systolic dysfunction and chamber dilation in DMD, which suggests that identifying diastolic indices and ...

Diastolic Dysfunction May Predict Rapid Cardiomyopathy Progression in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Previous echocardiography studies have suggested that diastolic dysfunction may precede systolic ...