Key points:
- No echo finding alone diagnoses HFpEF, but supportive results include:
1. LA dilation
2. LV diastolic dysfunction
3. LV hypertrophy
- Echo can be normal in some patients with HFpEF
- Other causes of pro-BNP elevation: CKD, atrial fibrillation, and female sex
- Advanced hemodynamic testing, such as a right heart cath may reveal diastolic dysfunction with exercise in difficult cases
- Cardiac MRI may help to exclude "HFpEF masqueraders"
Video Description:
What tools are best suited for evaluating and diagnosing Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction? Cardiologist, Dr. Jen Ho explains what information these techniques provide and how they can help us understand our patient's physiology.
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