Correlation of echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness with severity of coronary artery disease in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1177-1181

  Wang, Tao ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Liu, Cuixia ^a   Sun, Ling ^a   Li, Daixu ^a   Liu, Aihua ^a   Jia, Ruyi ^a  

^a TAISHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Epicardial adipose tissue; Myocardial infarction; Triple vessel disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYNTAX SCORE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84911007476     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12545     Document Type: Article

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