ArticleClinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society2021
The impact of epicardial adipose tissue in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Article in Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers.
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- An association between epicardial adipose tissue and prognosis in acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- CMR-quantified epicardial adipose tissue heterogeneity and its predictive value for ventricular and atrial arrhythmias after myocardial infarction.BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- Epicardial adipose tissue radiomics predicts VR and MACE after AMI: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Epicardial Adipocytes in Cardiac Pathology and Healing.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2025Review
- Effect of early adaptive servoventilation on cardiac repolarisation in patients with myocardial infarction and sleep disordered breathing: an ancillary analysis of the randomised controlled trial TEAM-ASV I.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- NSTEMI Risk Prediction with the Combination of the Biomarkers Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity 2.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025Observational
- Characterization of epicardial adipose tissue thickness and structure by ultrasound radiomics in acute and chronic coronary patients.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025Article
- Correlation of epicardial adipose tissue with microvascular obstruction and its effect on new-onset atrial arrhythmias after PCI in STEMI patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association Between Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2025Article
- Excessive accumulation of epicardial adipose tissue promotes microvascular obstruction formation after myocardial ischemia/reperfusion through modulating macrophages polarization.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024Article
- The Role of Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Acute Coronary Syndromes, Post-Infarct Remodeling and Cardiac Regeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Impact of Epicardial Adipose Tissue on Infarct Size and Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Patients with Anterior ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022Review
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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
aimsEpicardial adipose tissue (EAT) has been linked to impaired reperfusion success after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Whether EAT predicts myocardial damage in the early phase after acute myocardial infarction (MI) is unclear. Therefore, we investigated whether EAT in patients with acute MI is associated with more microvascular obstruction (MVO), greater ST-deviation, larger infarct size and reduced myocardial salvage index (MSI). METHODS AND
resultsThis retrospective analysis of a prospective observational study including patients with acute MI (n = 54) undergoing PCI and 12 healthy matched controls. EAT, infarct size and MSI were analyzed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, conducted 3-5 days and 12 weeks after MI. Patients with acute MI showed higher EAT volume than healthy controls (46 [25.;75. percentile: 37;59] vs. 24 [15;29] ml, p < 0.001). The high EAT group (above median) showed significantly more MVO (2.22 [0.00;5.38] vs. 0.0 [0.00;2.18] %, p = 0.004), greater ST-deviation (0.38 [0.22;0.55] vs. 0.15 [0.03;0.20] mV×10
conclusionsPatients with acute MI showed higher volume of EAT than healthy individuals. High EAT was linked to more MVO and greater ST-deviation. EAT was associated with infarct size, but not with MSI.
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