High recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients with high tissue atrial natriuretic peptide and amyloid levels after concomitant maze and mitral valve surgery

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5614762	Journal of Cardiology	2017	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

A lower ANP atrial tissue expression and amyloid deposits were correlated with a high pre-operative hemodynamic loading, and those patients had a paradoxically lower AF recurrence after relief of the hemodynamic burden by concomitant maze and mitral valve surgery.

Keywords

ADMA phospho-eNOs ICAM CVP ADAMTS13 PAP ECL eNOS LAA VIF vWF GAPDH TBS PBS ANP PVDF BSA Amyloid Electrocardiography ECG standard deviation enhanced chemiluminescence Tris buffered saline asymmetric dimethylarginine body surface area body mass index BMI left atrial appendage Von Willebrand factor Central venous pressure Pulmonary artery pressure Atrial fibrillation LAVi Variance inflation factors Phosphate-buffered saline intercellular adhesion molecule Poly vinylidene fluoride atrial natriuretic peptide glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13