title: [Diastolic dysfunction and heart failure].
abstract: Systolic and diastolic dysfunctions might present same symptomatology, but these are totally different entities. Diastolic dysfunction is a common disease. The most important causes are coronary artery disease and/or left ventricular hypertrophy. This disease has to be diagnosed and treated according to the physiopathology mechanism. Several mechanisms exist that influence and determine diastolic function, if one or a combination of them is altered; this would result in a wide clinical spectrum ranging from a patient without symptoms to an incapacitating state.
authors.affiliation: Depto. de Medicina Nuclear, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, INCICH, Juan Badiano No. 1, 14080 México, D.F.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alexanderson
mesh_terms: D003971:Diastole; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans