Atrial Fibrillation and Peri-Atrial Inflammation Measured through Adipose Tissue Attenuation on Cardiac Computed Tomography.
Nicola GaibazziChiara MartiniGiorgio BenattiAlessandro Anselmo PalumboGiovanna CacciolaDomenico TuttolomondoPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Fat-LA volume is significantly greater only in absolute terms in patients with AF, but this difference does not hold after adjusting for the larger LA of AF subjects. On the contrary, a higher Fat-LA density was associated with AF, independently from LA size, providing incremental value over other variables that are associated with AF.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- adipose tissue
- catheter ablation
- left atrial
- oral anticoagulants
- computed tomography
- left atrial appendage
- direct oral anticoagulants
- heart failure
- insulin resistance
- oxidative stress
- high fat diet
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- left ventricular
- type diabetes
- positron emission tomography
- coronary artery disease
- skeletal muscle
- metabolic syndrome
- venous thromboembolism
- contrast enhanced
- dual energy
- mitral valve