In one of the reports, patients who received epicardial-fat-pad injection of botulinum toxin during coronary bypass surgery (CABG) showed significant, steep, and sustained reductions in prevalence ...

A growing amount of evidence suggests that regional fat distribution plays an important part in the development of an unfavorable metabolic and cardiovascular risk profile. Epicardial fat is a ...

Epicardial adipose tissue is the fat depot between the myocardium and the visceral layer of the pericardium, and is anatomically and functionally contiguous with the myocardium This tissue has the ...

Their goal is to better understand the composition of epicardial fat and its role in heart disease. Our hearts are naturally ...

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy led to a statistically significant reduction in epicardial fat thickness, a marker for atherosclerosis, 12 months after surgery. Menu SECTIONS News Features CME/CE ...

A growing amount of evidence suggests that regional fat distribution plays an important part in the development of an unfavorable metabolic and cardiovascular risk profile. Epicardial fat is a ...