Katina Tzanetos and colleagues comprehensively reviewed the literature on the phenomenon that has become known as diastolic heart failure. 1 It is becoming recognized that the binary categorization of ...

Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the heart's ventricles stiffen and can't fill with blood properly. Diastolic heart failure ...

You have a 76-year-old patient with heart failure that was diagnosed 2 months ago. She has a history of hypertension, which is being treated with amlodipine. On her initial visit 2 months previously, ...