Diastolic dysfunction as a cause of heart failure.

Diastolic dysfunction is an important cause of symptoms in patients with various types of cardiac disease. Increased left ventricular diastolic pressure may lead to pulmonary congestion, even in the setting of normal left ventricular systolic function. Although the physiology of diastolic function is complex, left ventricular diastolic pressure may become elevated through one of three broad mechanisms. Abnormalities intrinsic to the left ventricle may include 1) impaired left ventricular relaxation, a finding that is common in most cardiac diseases and may be particularly important during ischemia; 2) increased left ventricular wall thickness relative to cavity volume, which will shift the diastolic pressure-volume relation such that the same volume is associated with a higher pressure; and 3) increased myocardial stiffness, which is thought to be associated with interstitial fibrosis or scar tissue formation. In addition, diastolic pressures may become elevated because of factors extrinsic to the left ventricle. These may include 1) increased central blood volume, which will increase left ventricular pressure without altering the left ventricular pressure-volume relation; and 2) ventricular interaction mediated by pericardial restraint, which may cause a parallel upward shift of the diastolic pressure-volume relation. Treatment of the factors extrinsic to the left ventricle tends to be much more successful than treating abnormalities that are intrinsic to the ventricle. Improved understanding of myocardial relaxation at the cellular level and delineation of the molecular regulation of myocyte hypertrophy and fibroblast proliferation may lead to new and innovative approaches to the treatment of heart failure.

• Publication year

  1993

• Venue

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology

• Publication date

  1993-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0735-1097(93)90463-BPMID 8376697
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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