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HFpEF

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Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction

Deep Dive

Going into detail on what this term means and how it relates to health guidelines. This article may be incomplete.

So-called "diastolic heart failure" due to a stiff left ventricle - has trouble relaxing between beats to accommodate the incoming volume of blood for the next cardiac cycle, leading to increases in "filling pressure" in the left ventricle and then pulmonary vascular congestion with symptoms of fluid retention and shortness of breath


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