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diastolc heart failure

i am a 19 year old boy. i have been suffering from shortness of breath for 5 months.recently i have a echocardiogram. it shows that my stroke volume is 47 ml . is this is a normal value or it is a sign of a heart disease? my ef is 61%.
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Stroke volume is a calculation to determine ejection fraction (EF)...the amount of blood pumped into circulation with each heartbeat.

The calulation for EF is volume of blood in the left ventricle at systole (pumping) phase.  Subtract the volume left in the ventricle after diastolic (filling) phase.  Then divide the volume of blood during systole for a fraction...that would be EF.

Your EF idicates you have a normal pumping heart.  Normal is 50 to 70%.  Do you have any heart valve regurgitation (leakage)?  Sometimes there is a hole between the upper chambers that comes to the attention of a cardiologist when an individual is in their teens due to a congenital defect?
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