Articles

• Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Clinical characteristics of 4133 patients enrolled in the I-PRESERVE trial

  John J.V. McMurray, Peter E. Carson, Michel Komajda, Robert McKelvie, Michael R. Zile, Agata Ptaszynska, Christoph Staiger, J. Mark Donovan, Barry M. Massie.
  European Journal of Heart Failure 10 (2008) 149–156.
  
  

• Evolution and outcome of diastolic dysfunction

  N Achong, S Wahi and T H Marwick.
  Heart 2009;95;813-818; originally published online 15 Dec 2008.
  
  

• How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology

  Walter Paulus, Carsten Tscho¨pe, John Sanderson, Cesare Rusconi, Frank Flachskampf, Frank Rademakers, Paolo Marino, Otto Smiseth, Gilles De Keulenaer, Adelino Leite-Moreira, Attila Borbe´ly, Istva´n E´des, Martin Louis Handoko, Stephane Heymans, Natalia Pezzali, Burkert Pieske, Kenneth Dickstein, Alan Fraser, and Dirk Brutsaert
  
  

• Irbesartan in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction

  Barry M. Massie, M.D., Peter E. Carson, M.D., John J. McMurray, M.D., Michel Komajda, M.D., Robert McKelvie, M.D., Michael R. Zile, M.D., Susan Anderson, M.S., Mark Donovan, Ph.D., Erik Iverson, M.S., Christoph Staiger, M.D., and Agata Ptaszynska, M.D., for the I-PRESERVE Investigators* The new England journal o f medicine 2008;359
  
  

• Large animal models for diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure - a review of the literature

  Dubi S, Arbel Y., Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  PMID: 19211273; www.pubmed.gov; February 2009
  
  

• Future Strategic for the Treatment of diastolic Heart Failure

  Yair Feld, Shay Dubi, Yotam Reisner, Ehud Schwammenthal and Amir Elami,
  Acute Cardiac Care 2006:8 13-20
  
  

• Trends in Prevalence and Outcome of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

  Theophilus E. Owan, M.D., David O. Hodge, M.S., Regina M. Herges, B.S., Steven J. Jacobsen, M.D., Ph.D., Veronique L. Roger, M.D., M.P.H., and Margaret M. Redfield, M.D.
  n engl j med 355;3 www.nejm.org, July 20, 2006
  
  

• Preoperative moderate to severe diastolic dysfunction: A novel Doppler echocardiographic long-term prognostic factor in patients with severe aortic stenosis

  Peter Gjertsson, MD Kenneth Caidahl, MD, PhD Mahmood Farasati, MSc Anders Odén, PhD Odd Bech-Hanssen, MD, PhD
  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 2005