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Most of the patients reporting on typical symptoms of chronic heart failure suffer from left ventricular systolic dysfunction, i.e., present with a severely — or at least moderately — reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. However, about 10–30% of these symptomatic patients have a normal left ventricular ejection fraction but signs of left ventricular concentric hypertrophy. Using modem clinical echocardiography, indirect indices of diastolic compliance disturbances may be found (for example a change in E/A ratio).
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Holubarsch, C.J.F. (2002). Diastolic Compliance. In: Mechanics and Energetics of the Myocardium. Basic Science for the Cardiologist, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0879-3_8
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