Progression of Systolic Abnormalities in Patients With “Isolated” Diastolic Heart Failure and Diastolic Dysfunction

Abstract

Through the use of tissue Doppler imaging, systolic abnormalities were evident in patients previously labeled as DHF and to a much lesser extent, isolated DD. This indicates the common coexistence of systolic and diastolic dysfunction in a spectrum of different severity in the pathophysiological process of heart failure.