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Pulsatile and Steady State Hemodynamics in Diastolic Heart Failure

NCT00720525 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 362

Last updated 2011-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Over the past few years, there has been a growing appreciation that a large number of patients with heart failure have a relatively normal (or preserved) ejection fraction (NFNEF). Epidemiologically, HFNEF is most prevalent among elderly women, most of whom have hypertension, diabetes, or both and often coronary artery disease (CAD). Increased arterial stiffness and/or wave reflections have been described in the same patient groups. Therefore, the investigators speculate that pulsatile hemodynamics, representing arterial stiffness and/or arterial wave reflections, 1) may be altered in HFNEF patients, 2) this may contribute to pathophysiology of HFNEF, and 3) this may be used for the diagnosis of the syndrome.

Conditions

  • Diastolic Heart Failure

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Weber, MD · Cardiology Department, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Austria

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Completion
2011-07-31

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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