A histological study of the atria in patients with isolated rheumatic mitral regurgitation with and without atrial fibrillation.
Saligrama R KalpanaJayaprakash ShentharDeepak PadmanabhanManeesh K RaiAnkit SinghBharatraj BanavalikarRavikumar N KalyaniGiridhar KamalapurkarPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2021)
Patients with isolated severe rheumatic MR and AF have more vacuolar degeneration in the atrial tissue. Patients with SR have myocyte hypertrophy and interstitial adipose tissue deposition. Interstitial fibrosis is uniformly distributed in patients in SR and AF.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- adipose tissue
- rheumatoid arthritis
- catheter ablation
- end stage renal disease
- left atrial
- oral anticoagulants
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- heart failure
- direct oral anticoagulants
- magnetic resonance
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- early onset
- high fat diet
- type diabetes
- skeletal muscle
- coronary artery disease
- contrast enhanced
- drug induced
- acute coronary syndrome