Epicardial atrial fat: Not quite as idle as it looks

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 266-267

  Arora, Rishi ^a   Knight, Bradley P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; GELATINASE A; MATRILYSIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL ATRIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SURGERY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 84921046616     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.10.040     Document Type: Editorial

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