Left Atrial Stiffness Index and Outcomes After Discharge in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nephrology, and Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. Electronic address: kusunok@cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan.
• ⁴ Cardiovascular Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Enshu Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Community Emergency Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Yawatahama, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.