Atrial fibrosis
YKL 40 is highly expressed in the epicardial adipose tissue of patients with atrial fibrillation and associated with atrial fibrosis
... Atrial fibrosis is related to the structural remodeling of the atrium, which lays the basis for persistent and per- manent AF [10]. EAT, or pericardial adipose tissue, previ- ously thought to play a ...
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Original Article Fibroblast growth factor-21 is positively associated with atrial fibrosis in atrial fibrillation patients with rheumatic heart disease
... and atrial fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and rheumatic heart disease ...right atrial appendage samples were taken in the surgery of valve ...of atrial myocytes; ...
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Relation of Echocardiographic Markers of Left Atrial Fibrosis to Atrial Fibrillation Burden
... LA fibrosis is a major determinant of the progression to, and burden of AF and its substrate, 1 3 leading to an increase in total atrial activation ...total atrial activa- tion time, reflecting the ...
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Segmenting Atrial Fibrosis from late Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac MRI by Deep-Learned Features with Stacked Sparse Auto-Encoders
... for fibrosis detection in the ...of fibrosis in the left atrium ...with atrial fibrillation (AF). Nev- ertheless, precise and objective atrial fibrosis segmentation (AFS) is required ...
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Atrial fibrosis in a chronic murine model of obstructive sleep apnea: mechanisms and prevention by mesenchymal stem cells
... and fibrosis are closely linked, with several interrelated metabolic ...dial fibrosis in other experimental settings ...to atrial fibrosis intensity, further highlighting higher fibroblast ...
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Assessment of atrial fibrosis for the rhythm control of atrial fibrillation
... to atrial fibrosis in humans, after evidence that they relate to fibrosis and disordered connexin expression in ...of fibrosis identified by ...
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Shensong Yangxin capsule reduces atrial fibrillation susceptibility by inhibiting atrial fibrosis in rats with post-myocardial infarction heart failure
... myocardial fibrosis through a reduction in collagen expres- sion, and that absence of TIMP-1 improved cardiac function in TIMP-1-deficient ...myocardial fibrosis by reducing collagen type I and III and α ...
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Intra-cardiac and peripheral levels of biochemical markers of fibrosis in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
... (0.2-0.5mV) is drawn from these studies. The lower value chosen was 0.2mV rather than 0mV to reduce artefact caused by poor contact between the mapping catheter and the endocardium. Assuming that this method is a ...
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Rapid automatic segmentation of abnormal tissue in late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance images for improved management of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation
... left atrial tissue being poorly ...right atrial wall at the septum, etc.) that are not related to left atrial fibrosis or ablation lesion and need to be meticulously dis- ...
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Dispersion of Recovery and Vulnerability to Re-entry in a Model of Human Atrial Tissue With Simulated Diffuse and Focal Patterns of Fibrosis
... of fibrosis and the size of individual lesions, and so computational models of cardiac cell and tissue electrophysiology have been used to examine how regions of simulated fibrosis affect activation and ...
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Original Article Possible involvement of TGF-β/periostin in fibrosis of right atrial appendages in patients with atrial fibrillation
... Abstract: Atrial fibrosis contributes to development and recurrence of atrial fibrillation ...in atrial fibrosis of AF and in the recurrence of AF after surgery ...of atrial ...
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Original Article MiR-30a regulates the atrial fibrillation-induced myocardial fibrosis by targeting snail 1
... [4]. Atrial fibrosis is a common clinical charac- teristic of AF and its magnitude related to AF significantly differed in a variety of experimen- tal studies [5, ...interstitial atrial ...
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Cardiac mast cells cause atrial fibrillation through PDGF A–mediated fibrosis in pressure overloaded mouse hearts
... Mast cells secrete diverse chemical mediators, cytokines, and growth factors upon exposure to a stimulus. This process involves release of the mediators prestored in the granules (degranulation) and de novo synthesis of ...
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Ratio of preoperative atrial natriuretic peptide to brain natriuretic peptide predicts the outcome of the maze procedure in mitral valve disease
... left atrial collagen volume fraction and is related to the out- come of a maze procedure ...by atrial fibrosis but also by an increased pressure or volume load in the atria ...left atrial ...
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Original Article Increased expression of the TSP-1/TGF-β/MMP-9 axis in atrial fibrillation related to rheumatic heart disease
... myocardium fibrosis [24], which may be regu- lated to micro RNA-18/19 ...with atrial fibrosis and LAD, sug- gesting the possible role of TSP-1 in atrial fibro- sis in ...
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Assessment of atrial regional and global electromechanical function by tissue velocity echocardiography: a feasibility study on healthy individuals
... different atrial and ventricular ...among atrial and ventricular walls, post hoc analysis with Bonfer- roni's test was performed to assess differences among those ...of atrial mechanical ...the ...
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Atrial natriuretic peptide protects against bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis via vascular endothelial cells in mice
... Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a heart-derived secretory peptide that mediates a wide range of biological functions including diuresis, natriuresis, vasorelaxation, and inhibition of the renin–angioten- ...
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Radiofrequency catheter ablation in atrial arrhythmias : insight into pre-procedural evaluation and procedural guidance
... identification of the arrhythmogenic substrate and critical isthmus of a presumed macro-reentrant circuit with only brief episodes of induced tachycardia. First, a registered three-dimensional (3D) shell of the cardiac ...
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Macrophage and Innate Lymphoid Cell Interplay in the Genesis of Fibrosis
... A loss of membrane integrity of cells, through injury, apopto- sis, or necrosis, results in uncontrolled release of cellular contents, some of which can act as DAMPs, initiating an inflammatory response to clear cellular ...
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Primary Cardiac Involvement in Scleroderma and Role of Cardiac MRI
... Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is a connective tissue disease characterized by vascular dysfunc- tion and fibrosis that can affect multiple organ systems. We present case of primary cardiac in- volvement and the ...
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