<span name="style_bold">Pathophysiology of Diastolic Heart Failure </span>The principal clinical and pathophysiological characteristics of diastolic heart failure along with intrínsic and extrinsic factors that can induce or worsen it are discussed.The principal clinical and pathophysiological characteristics of diastolic heart failure along with intrínsic and extrinsic factors that can induce or worsen it are discussed.

Diastolic cardiac heart failure; ejection fraction; myocardial relaxation; myocardial stiffness