Echocardiographic Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness Is Associated with Symptomatic Coronary Vasospasm during Provocative Testing

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1021-1027.e1

  Nishio, Susumu ^a   Kusunose, Kenya ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Hirata, Yukina ^a   Ise, Takayuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Koji ^a   Yagi, Shusuke ^a   Soeki, Takeshi ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Shimabukuro, Michio ^b   Sata, Masataka ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior interventricular groove; Echocardiography; Epicardial adipose tissue; Vasospasm in patients with angina

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL FAT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVOCATION TEST; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VASOSPASM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85028312508     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2017.06.024     Document Type: Article

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