The Role of Epicardial Fat in Pericardial Diseases

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Lazaros, George ^a   Antonopoulos, Alexios ^a,b   Antoniades, Charalambos ^b   Tousoulis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute pericarditis; Epicardial adipose tissue; Pericardial syndromes; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPICARDIAL FAT; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; ADIPOSE TISSUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85045835084     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-018-0986-7     Document Type: Review

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