The heart of the matter: prime time E/e' prime!

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¹ Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Electronic address: publishing14@aurora.org.
² Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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A Jamil Tajik et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Aug.

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. 2014 Aug;7(8):759-61.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.05.003.

¹ Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Electronic address: publishing14@aurora.org.
² Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Keywords: diastolic dysfunction; echocardiography; left atrium; prognosis; speckle tracking.

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Redefining diastolic dysfunction grading: combination of E/A ≤0.75 and deceleration time >140 ms and E/ε' ≥10.
Kuwaki H, Takeuchi M, Chien-Chia Wu V, Otani K, Nagata Y, Hayashi A, Iwataki M, Fukuda S, Yoshitani H, Abe H, Otsuji Y. Kuwaki H, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Aug;7(8):749-58. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.05.002. Epub 2014 Jul 16. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014. PMID: 25051944