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 ...

The severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction affects risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding.

Diastolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 4, while systolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 6. Often, grade 1 systolic/diastolic murmurs are not discernible to inexperienced clinicians ...

Objective: Because a pseudonormal pattern of ventricular filling has never been considered in studies that reported a prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) between 20 and 40% ...

During a median follow-up of 3.5 years, diastolic dysfunction was a powerful independent predictor of death, even after adjustment for ejection fraction. Diastolic dysfunction is common in a ...