title: [Diastolic function of the heart in patients with chronic heart failure and methods of diagnosis of its impairment by tissue Doppler echocardiography].
abstract: Negative role of diastolic dysfunction in the heart failure formation is out of doubt now. But the problem of complex diagnostics of this dysfunction is still open. New scientific and technical developments widen our understanding of diastolic function of the heart and possibilities of its assessment in patients with chronic heart failure. One of these possibilities is the use of tissue doppler imaging. Modern concepts of the role of diastolic dysfunction in heart failure as well as detailed characteristics of the novel noninvasive method of its diagnosis are presented in this review.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Research Complex; ul. Tretiya Cherepkovskaya 15a, 121552 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Iu N
authors.initials: IuN
authors.lastname: Belenkov
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Agmanova
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D018619:Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed / Q000379:methods*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging