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Abnormalities in Cardiac Relaxation and Other Forms of Diastolic Dysfunction

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In 1651, William Harvey wrote: “I saw the heart and its auricles begin to move, to contract and to relax . . . The motion and action of the heart is a kind of swallowing and transfusion of the blood from the veins into the arteries . . .”1 In this vivid description, Harvey made it clear that the heart had two separate functions: the systolic function and the diastolic function.

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Pouleur, H. (1994). Abnormalities in Cardiac Relaxation and Other Forms of Diastolic Dysfunction. In: Hosenpud, J.D., Greenberg, B.H. (eds) Congestive Heart Failure. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8315-4_5

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