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Edited by Otto A. Smiseth and Micha Tendera. 349 pp., illustrated. London, Springer, 2008. $199. ISBN 978-1-84628-890-6.

Heart failure caused predominantly by diastolic dysfunction, or diastolic heart failure, accounts for one third to one half of all cases of heart failure. Its prevalence and the rate of associated death from all causes are increasing in tandem with the age of the population, whereas mortality associated with systolic heart failure is decreasing. Interest in the subject of diastolic heart failure is also increasing, as is the number of publications on the subject. This is in part because of the ubiquity of echocardiography, which not only can quantify ejection fraction but also can estimate filling pressures. Other factors include . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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