Conventional echocardiography combined ... Impairment of LV diastolic as well as systolic function appears very early in the course of heart disease. The identification of patients with ...

We have a state-of-the-art VEVO 3100 ECHO machine, an MX400 variable frequency (20-46MHz) probe, a temperature-controlled platform with EKG monitoring, and an anesthesia machine. We can measure ...

There are four grades of diastolic dysfunction as described below. Echocardiography is the ... dysfunction as compared to normal diastolic function is the presence of structural heart disease ...

The authors found that female gender, in addition to diastolic function, is an independent predictor of brain natriuretic peptide levels in the elderly without systolic ventricular dysfunction.