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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2005) 2, 376
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0255  
| Published online: 22 July 2005

Left-ventricular properties in diastolic heart failure

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Despite the fact that patients with diastolic heart failure usually have a normal ejection fraction, it has been proposed that significant abnormalities in left-ventricular systolic function are an important component of this condition. Baicu and colleagues hypothesized that the systolic properties of the left ventricle are, in fact, normal in these patients; the results of their study have recently been published in Circulation.

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