Assess the clinical diagnostic value of heart failure echocardiography index for diastolic dysfunction / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the heart function of patients who had diastolic dysfunction.Using heart failure echocardiography index(HFEI),which synthesizes the multinomial parameter of echocardiography.The aim is to provide an impersonal,comprehensive and numerable criterion for appraising chronic congestive heart failure.Methods Totally 75 patients with diastolic dysfunction and 37 normal controls were involved in the study.All the subjects were graded by heart failure echocardiography index(HFEI)which was put forward by our hospital and the multinomial parameter of echocardiography was synthesized.At the same time,the scores of heart failure echocardiography index(HFEI)were compared with the outcomes of contemporaneous BNP and the NYHA class.Results The scores of heart failure echocardiography index(HFEI)in diastolic dysfunction group were higher than those in control group(P