Heart murmurs are extra sounds that accompany a heartbeat These are usually harmless or innocent or abnormal Here’s how to ...

The systolic pressures were normal in most, being less than 100 mm. of mercury in 10, 100 to 119 mm. in 34, 120 to 139 mm. in 11 and 140 mm. in 2 cases. Flush pressures only were obtained in 4 ...

Diastolic murmurs have always been considered abnormal, but this report presents nine apparently normal children with high-frequency, early, diamond-shaped diastolic murmurs confirmed by intracavitary ...

Objectives We aimed to determine if auscultation or a point-of-care scan could reduce the need for standard echocardiography (transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)) in community patients with ...

Clinically overt diastolic HF, also referred to as HF with normal ejection fraction (EF), currently accounts for 40–50% of all HF cases and has a prognosis as dire as that of systolic HF. [1] ...

Cite this: Systolic and Diastolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction: From Risk Factors to Overt Heart Failure - Medscape - Feb 01, 2010.

Background: Prolonged steady state exercise can lead to a decrease in left ventricular (LV) function as well as promote the release of cardiac troponin T (cTnT). There is limited information on the ...

Objectives Seventeen male participants (mean (SD) (range): age 33.5 (6.5) years (46–26 years), body mass 80 (9.2) kg (100–63 kg), height 1.81 (0.06) m (1.93– 1.70 m)) ran a marathon to investigate the ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Systolic congestive heart failure, or systolic heart failure, is a type of heart ...

Pulse pressure is the systolic blood pressure minus the diastolic blood pressure. As an example, if a blood pressure reading ...

The life expectancy of someone living with heart failure depends on several factors, such as age, type of heart failure, and medications they may be taking. A 2019 review found that the 5-year ...