title: [Diastolic heart failure: heart failure with preserved ejection fraction].
abstract: The prognosis for patients with diastolic heart failure--heart failure with preserved ejection fraction--has not improved in the last few decades despite improvement of prognosis for all patients with heart failure. Diastolic dysfunction is a typical finding in elderly patients with heart failure. The diagnostic process is a challenge for clinicians who are often faced with comorbidities like COPD, osteoarthritis, sarcopenia, and diabetes. Classical treatment options fail to improve patients with diastolic heart failure; thus, a comprehensive and specific treatment plan is necessary.
authors: Akutgeriatrie/Remobilisation, Landeskrankenhaus Gmunden, Miller-von-Aichholz-Str. 49, 4810, Gmunden. peter.dovjak@gespag.at
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mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D054144:Heart Failure, Diastolic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*