Association between interatrial septum adiposity and atrial fibrillation: transesophageal echocardiography imaging and autopsy study

Abstract Recent clinical evidence has suggested that interatrial septal (IAS) adiposity contributes to atrial fibrillation (AF). The present study aimed to confirm the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to estimate IAS adiposity in patients with AF. The histological IAS analysis ba...

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Main Authors: Miho Miyoshi, Ichitaro Abe, Nozomi Kodama, Yinge Zhan, Shintaro Kira, Yumi Ishii, Taisuke Harada, Masayuki Takano, Masaki Takahashi, Hiroki Sato, Katsunori Tawara, Hidekazu Kondo, Akira Fukui, Tomoko Fukuda, Hidefumi Akioka, Tetsuji Shinohara, Yasushi Teshima, Kunio Yufu, Mikiko Nakagawa, Tsutomu Daa, Tatsuo Shimada, Naohiko Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36677-1