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Table 1 Causes of diastolic dysfunction

From: Assessment of left ventricular diastolic function by MR: why, how and when

Common causes

Ischaemic cardiomyopathy

Systemic hypertension

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Aortic valve stenosis

Other causes

Infiltrative cardiomyopathies

 Amyloidosis

 Sarcoidosis

 Iron overload cardiomyopathy (primary or secondary)

 Other storage diseases

  Glycogen storage disease

  Anderson-Fabry disease

  Mucopolysaccharidosis

Fibroplastic cardiomyopathies

 Endomyocardial fibrosis

 Endocardial fibroelastosis

 Loffler's fibroplastic endocarditis

Pericardial disorders

 Constrictive pericarditis

 Pericardial effusion and tamponade