Echocardiographic assessment of aortic pulse wave velocity as a diagnostic and prognostic parameter for left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.

CONCLUSIONS: Echocardiographic assessment of aortic PWV appears not only to be a sensitive and reliable for LVDD detection but also has a promising prognostic value in patients with LVDD.
PMID: 32100985 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Minerva Cardioangiologica - February 27, 2020 Category: Cardiology Tags: Minerva Cardioangiol Source Type: research