Table 3.

Articles looking into: The impact of diastolic dysfunction (DD) on patient's outcome following Cardiac Surgery.

Authors	Year	Journal	Conclusions
Casthely et al [84]	1997	J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg	The effects of myocardial protection on diastolic function after cardiac operations
Bernard F et al [13]	2001	Anesth Analg	The significance of diastolic dysfunction perioperatively; Diastolic dysfunction is associated with difficult weaning from CPB.
Vaskelyte J [18]	2001	Eur J Echocardiogr	The interesting concept to subdivide patients with severe LV dysfunction into different groups according to diastolic filling pattern abnormality. One of the few articles investigating the relationship between diastolic dysfunction and post-operative mortality. Drawbacks: All patients had low EF < 35%.
Liu J et al [17]	2003	Am J Cardiol	The prognostic value of transmitral flow patterns on patients following CABG; Probably one of the most important papers on the subject. The study claims that pseudonormal and restrictive TMF patterns, correlates with short term adverse outcome
Malouf PJ [85]	2006	J Am Soc Echocardiogr	Doppler tissue imaging of mitral annular velocity: Lateral segmental velocity has advantages over the septal segmental velocity

Literature review: the Outcome