Diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Not seeing the forest for the trees or a step to precision medicine?

Grigorios Korosoglou^{1

2}, Markus Haass³

Affiliations

¹ GRN Hospital Weinheim, Department of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine & Pneumology, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
² Cardiac Imaging Center Weinheim, Hector Foundation, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Cardiology, Theresienkrankenhaus, Mannheim, Germany.

Editorial

Grigorios Korosoglou et al. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug;37(8):2497-2499.

doi: 10.1007/s10554-021-02301-4.

Grigorios Korosoglou^{1

2}, Markus Haass³

¹ GRN Hospital Weinheim, Department of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine & Pneumology, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
² Cardiac Imaging Center Weinheim, Hector Foundation, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Cardiology, Theresienkrankenhaus, Mannheim, Germany.

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"Accelerated aging" of the heart as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction-analysis using leg-positive pressure stress echocardiography.
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