Acta Médica del Centro (Sep 2007)

Diastolic-Cardiac Dysfunction

  • Carlos Enrique Herrera Cartaya,
  • Luis Alberto Santos Pérez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 93 – 104

Abstract

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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.

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