Volume overload with relatively normal kidney and liver function. We tend to pin this on the heart. Often it’s related to stiff and inelastic myocardium (poor diastolic function) but it’s also become somewhat of a grab bag term.
Volume overload with relatively normal kidney and liver function. We tend to pin this on the heart. Often it’s related to stiff and inelastic myocardium (poor diastolic function) but it’s also become somewhat of a grab bag term.
Thank you. That is pretty much what I suspected---some sort of cardiomyopathy that restricted diastolic filling. In almost 40 years of practice, I can't recall ever seeing this. Some severe hypertensives might have enough LVH to give this sort of problem, but they almost always had significant renal dysfunction as well.
Volume overload with relatively normal kidney and liver function. We tend to pin this on the heart. Often it’s related to stiff and inelastic myocardium (poor diastolic function) but it’s also become somewhat of a grab bag term.
Thank you. That is pretty much what I suspected---some sort of cardiomyopathy that restricted diastolic filling. In almost 40 years of practice, I can't recall ever seeing this. Some severe hypertensives might have enough LVH to give this sort of problem, but they almost always had significant renal dysfunction as well.