ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2022
MRI-quantified left atrial epicardial adipose tissue predicts atrial fibrillation recurrence following catheter ablation.
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- Inflammation and Resolution in Obesity-Related Cardiovascular Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Macrophage Immunometabolism in Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Obesity-Related Atrial Fibrillation.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Epicardial adipose tissue and ablation outcomes in obese patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A comparison of pulsed field and radiofrequency ablation.Heart rhythm O2 · 2025Article
- Left Atrial Mechanics and Remodeling in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Introducing the EASE Score for Pre-Ablation Risk Prediction.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Poincare guided geometric UNet for left atrial epicardial adipose tissue segmentation in Dixon MRI images.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cardiovascular imaging techniques for electrophysiologists.Nature cardiovascular research · 2025Review
- Reduction in Left Atrial Epicardial Adipose Tissue Following Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation.Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · 2025Article
- Atrial fibrillation substrate and impaired left atrial function: a cardiac MRI study.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024Article
- Epicardial Atrial Fat at Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and AF Recurrence after Transcatheter Ablation.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Article
- The relationship between atrial fibrillation and NLRP3 inflammasome: a gut microbiota perspective.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) plays a significant role in promoting atrial fibrillation (AF) due to its proinflammatory properties and anatomic proximity to the myocardium. We sought to assess whether left atrial (LA) EAT volume is associated with AF recurrence following catheter ablation. Methods: EAT was assessed Results: During an average follow-up period of 1 year, post-ablation AF recurrence occurred in 31 (30.7%) patients. LA EAT index was higher in those with compared to without recurrence (20.7 [16.9, 30.4] vs. 13.7 [10.5, 20.1] mL/m Conclusion: EAT quantified using cardiac MRI, a reproducible and widely accessible imaging parameter, is a strong and independent predictor of post-ablation AF recurrence.
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