title: [Significance of the diastole in the clinical evaluation of heart function].
abstract: The diastole is frequently neglected in the assessment of the heart function, though for a long while has been known that in the diastole active, energy-requiring processes take place. After a description of the various definitions and fundaments of the diastolic function of the ventricle the essential criteria and the methodological possibilities are mentioned. The most exact informations are to be obtained from simultaneous analyses of pressure dimensions (and volumes, respectively) with regional differentiation. In this case we are particularly interested in the early (isovolumetric) relaxation phase, since here the essential energetic processes take place, which may early be changed and which also first to all may be influenced medicamentously. By means of a listing of parameters of the diastolic ventricular function depending upon the methodological possibilities impulses shall be given to take into consideration the diastole more for diagnosis, prognosis and above all for therapy.
mesh_terms: D002306:Cardiac Volume; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D003971:Diastole; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006334:Heart Function Tests / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Zur Bedeutung der Diastole für die klinische Beurteilung der Herzfunktion.