Fisetin Alleviates Atrial Inflammation, Remodeling, and Vulnerability to Atrial Fibrillation after Myocardial Infarction

Does myocardial infarction beget atrial fibrillation and atrial fibrillation beget myocardial infarction?

Atrial fibrillation and death after myocardial infarction: a community study.

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) often coexists with myocardial infarction (MI), yet its prognostic influence is disputed. Prior reports studied the relationship of AF during early hospitalization for acute MI to the risk of death and could not address the timing of AF in relation to the MI (ie, before, during, after). Furthermore, as data come mostly from clinical trials, their applicabilit...

Myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation: importance of atrial ischemia.

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with the development of atrial fibrillation (AF). We aimed to characterize the atrial abnormalities because of MI and determine the role of ischemia to the AF substrate. METHODS AND RESULTS Forty-four sheep were studied. MI was induced by occlusion of the left circumflex artery (LCX) or left anterior descending artery (LAD). Excluding 11 wit...

Recurrent acute myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation

I have read the article entitled Predictors and in-hospital prognosis of recurrent acute myocardial infarction by Cao, et al. with great interest, recently published in journal. The investigators reported that recurrent acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients presented with more severe coronary artery conditions. Age, diabetes mellitus (DM) and reperfusion therapy were independent risk facto...

Atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction.

To elucidate the genesis and effect of atrial fibrillation (AF), 102 patients with acute myocardial infarction were studied. Eighteen patients had AF during the first 72 hours in the coronary care unit. The hospital mortality rate was 23%. Discriminant analysis was used to determine the important variables contributing to the genesis of AF and hospital mortality based on the following variables...