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. 2014 Oct 11;4(3):100–113.

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*How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of HFPEF by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology* [12]. *LVEDVI*: left ventricular end-diastolic volume index; *mPCW*: mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; *LVEDP*: left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; τ: time constant of left ventricular relaxation; b: constant of left ventricular chamber stiffness; TD: tissue Doppler; E: early mitral valve flow velocity; e’: early myocardial velocity at mitral annulus; *NT-proBNP*: N-terminal-pro brain natriuretic peptide; *BNP*: brain natriuretic peptide; *E/A*: ratio of early (E) to late (A) mitral valve flow velocity; DT: deceleration time; *LVMI*: left ventricular mass index; *LAVI*: left atrial volume index; *Ard*: duration of reverse pulmonary vein atrial systole flow; Ad: duration of mitral valve atrial wave flow.

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