Are you applying the latest guidelines on diastolic function?

What are the key points of the newest guidelines?

In principle the committee emphasizes that in patient with cardiac pathology, where it is clear that diastolic must be present all you need to do is “estimate” the filling pressure to determine the degree of diastolic dysfunction. In all other patients you simply need 4 parameters.

• TDI e ́(lateral and medial)
• TDI E/e
• TR velocity
• Left atrial size