Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Universiteit Antwerpen
Over half of patients with heart failure now present with a normal contractile function, a condition which is called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). There is currently no evidence-based treatment to improve prognosis in HFpEF, partly because the pathophysiology of this complex syndrome is incompletely understood. The prevailing hypothesis states that comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes and obesity impair the ...