RT Book, Section A1 Arbustini, Eloisa A1 Serio, Alessandra A1 Favalli, Valentina A1 Dec, G. William A1 Palladini, Giovanni A1 Narula, Jagat A2 Fuster, Valentin A2 Harrington, Robert A. A2 Narula, Jagat A2 Eapen, Zubin J. SR Print(0) ID 1161715190 T1 RESTRICTIVE HEART DISEASES T2 Hurst's The Heart, 14e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071843249 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1161715190 RD 2024/04/24 AB Restrictive physiology describes a pattern of ventricular filling in which increased myocardial stiffness causes a precipitous elevation of ventricular pressure matched by a limited increase in volume; the resultant diastolic dysfunction is characterized by a pattern of mitral inflow Doppler velocities with an increased ratio of early diastolic filling to atrial filling (≥ 2), decreased E-deceleration time (< 160 ms), and decreased isovolumetric relaxation time.