ArticleBrazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery2020
Echocardiographically Measured Epicardial Fat Predicts New-onset Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery.
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- Serum Uric Acid as a Cardiovascular Risk Marker: Differential Effects of Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting in Postmenopausal Women.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Influence of epicardial adipose tissue inflammation and adipocyte size on postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients after cardiovascular surgery.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Computed tomography measured epicardial adipose tissue and psoas muscle attenuation: new biomarkers to predict major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and mortality in patients with heart disease and critically ill patients. Part I: Epicardial adipose tissue.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Patients with Angiographically-Confirmed Coronary Artery Disease to Investigate the Association Between Epicardial Fat Thickness and Atrial Fibrillation.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2022Article
- Fat chance for POAF? Pericardial adipose tissue and the arrhythmogenic substrate for postoperative atrial fibrillation.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2022Article
- Atrial Fibrillation and Peri-Atrial Inflammation Measured through Adipose Tissue Attenuation on Cardiac Computed Tomography.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe current study aims to investigate the role of echocardiographically measured epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness in the prediction of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery.
methodsOne hundred and twenty-four patients scheduled to undergo isolated on-pump CABG due to coronary artery disease were enrolled to the current study. Patient characteristics, medical history and perioperative variables were prospectively collected. EAT thickness was measured using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Any documented episode of new-onset postoperative AF (POAF) until discharge was defined as the study endpoint. Fortyfour participants with POAF served as AF group and 80 patients without AF served as Non-AF group.
resultsTwo groups were similar in terms of baseline echocardiographic and laboratory findings. In laboratory findings, the groups were similar in terms of the studied parameters, except N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT Pro-BNP), which was higher in AF group than in Non-AF group (P=0.035). The number of left internal mammary artery (LIMA) grafts was not different in both groups. AF group had higher cross-clamp (CC) and cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) times than Non-AF group (P=0.01 and P<0.001). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, EAT was found an independent predictor for the development of POAF (OR 4.47, 95% CI 3.07-5.87, P=0.001).
conclusionWe have shown that EAT thickness is associated with increased risk of AF development and can be used as a prognostic marker for this purpose.
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