Epicardial fat sign due to extrapericardial disease

Unexpected Cardiac Arrest due to Extrapericardial Tamponade: Beware of Hemomediastinum!

Cardiac tamponade resulting from hemopericardium after a thoracic trauma is a relatively common occurrence. We report on 2 cases of extrapericardial cardiac tamponade, a condition that is definitely less common although potentially life threatening. Both patients underwent sternotomic cardiac decompression and were transferred to ICU: the first patient died of neurological damage, the second pa...

Relation between epicardial fat thickness and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Complex biphasic relationship between epicardial fat and ischemic heart disease.

he epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) constitutes visceral fat located around the myocardium and epicardial segments of the coronary arteries.1 Prior studies demonstrate a static correlation between EAT and left ventricular mass, with a constant EAT to myocardial mass ratio in normal, hypertrophic, and ischemic hearts.2 However, EAT is a dynamic fat depot, with incompletely understood temporal cha...

Epicardial fat and coronary artery disease: An open debate

stress-only MPI SPECT (≈3 mSv), rest-stress MPI PET Rubidium-82 (≈3 mSv), and rest-stress MPI PET 13N (≈2 mSv) are represented in the recent consensus document (3). In addition, as defined by the authors, novel SPECT camera technology may allow us to reduce radiation doses with SPECT imaging (5). Stress-only MPI use may be encouraged whenever possible to reduce radiation exposure. Finally, in f...

Myocardial, Perivascular, and Epicardial Fat

Myocardial fat content refers to the storage of triglyceride droplets within cardiomyocytes. In addition, the heart and arteries are surrounded by layers of adipose tissue, exerting vasocrine and paracrine control of the subtending tissues. The rapid development of the field of noninvasive imaging has made it possible to quantify ectopic fat masses and contents with an increasing degree of accu...