Acta Médica del Centro (Sep 2007)
Diastolic-Cardiac Dysfunction
Abstract
Heart failure is defined as a disorder of heart's inability to pump blood with normal efficiency for providing an adequate cardiac output in presence of a normal vein return. A great quantity of patients, that suffer from this disease have a normal ejection fraction or nearly normal, however they present a deficient ventricular relaxation. Knowing these particularities, offers us a widen field in the management with these patients who require a different therapeutics.