Arteriovenous Fistula-induced Cardiac Remodeling Shows Cardioprotective Features in Mice.
Shin-Rong LeeStephanie ThornNicole GuerreraLuis GonzalezRyosuke TaniguchiJohn LangfordAlbert J SinusasAlan DardikPublished in: JVS-vascular science (2021)
AVF stimulate adaptive cardiac hypertrophy in wild-type mice without heart failure or pathological fibrosis. Transcriptional correlates suggest AVF-induced cardiac remodeling has some cardioprotective, although also arrhythmogenic features.