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Coronary Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction
- Jalal K. Ghali, MD
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TO THE EDITOR:
In their comprehensive review of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction as a cause of heart failure, Bonow and Udelson [1] did not mention clinical features that would enable clinicians to recognize this condition at the bedside. In a recent study of 82 patients admitted for decompensated heart failure [2], we found that the combination of a diastolic blood pressure of 105 mm Hg or more and the absence of jugular venous distention had a specificity and positive predictive value approaching 100%. Recognizing these points should improve the clinician's ability to identify diastolic heart failure at the bedside.
Jalal K. Ghali
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