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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CC</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Cardiol Croat</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Cardiologia Croatica</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Cardiol. Croat.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">1848-543X</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">1848-5448</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Croatian Cardiac Society</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CC_2013_8_9_314</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15836/ccar.2013.314</article-id>
<article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Extended Abstract</subject></subj-group>
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<article-title>Epicardial adipose tissue, intramyocardial fat and right heart morphology: histopathological analysis</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Selthofer-Relatic</surname><given-names>Kristina</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rajc</surname><given-names>Jasmina</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Dumencic</surname><given-names>Boris</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bosnjak</surname><given-names>Ivica</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Radic</surname><given-names>Radivoje</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Steiner</surname><given-names>Robert</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Boban</surname><given-names>Domagoj</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib>
<aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><institution>University Hospital Centre Osijek</institution>, <addr-line>Osijek</addr-line>, <country country="hr">Croatia</country></aff>
<aff id="aff2"><label>2</label><institution content-type="dept">School of Medicine</institution>, <institution>University J. J. Strossmayer Osijek</institution>, <addr-line>Osijek</addr-line>, <country country="hr">Croatia</country></aff>
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<corresp id="cor1">Correspondence to Kristina Selthofer-Relatic, Klinicki bolnicki centar Osijek, J. Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia; Phone: +385-31-511-717; E-mail: <email xlink:href="selthofer.relatic@gmail.com">selthofer.relatic@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes>
<pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic"><month>09</month><year>2013</year></pub-date>
<pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="print"><month>09</month><year>2013</year></pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<issue>9</issue>
<fpage>314</fpage>
<lpage>314</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-holder>
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<kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><title>KEYWORDS: </title><kwd>epicardial adipose tissue</kwd><kwd>intramyocardial fat</kwd><kwd>obesity</kwd><kwd>right atrium</kwd><kwd>right ventricle</kwd></kwd-group>
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<p>Epicardial adipose tissue represents cardiometabolic risk factor. It is a fat deposit around the heart, predominantly over the right ventricle free wall and specially apex, posseses the same microcirculation as myocardium, induces inflammation and endothelial dysfunction via the &#x201C;inside out&#x201D; pathway by adipocytokines and free fatty acids: inflammatory intima cell infiltration, transcytosis of cholesterol rich lipoproteins, oxidative modification, foam cell formation and smooth muscle cell proloferation. According to recent studies with cardiac imaging (computed tomography and magnetic resonance), intramyocardial fat was found in the right ventricle free wall in physiologic (ageing) and pathophysiologic (arrhythmogenic right ventricle dysplasia) conditions, as the connective tissue between cardiomyocytes, not as cardiomyocytes hypertrophy. The origin and types of intramyocardial fat, its connection to epicardial adipose tissue and their effect on the right atrium/ventricle morphology and function is not clear yet. The latest reports referred the potential impact of epicardial fat on the right/left atrium with differences in remodeling and arrhytmogenesis. The purpose of this prospective study was to investigate the correlation between epicardial adipose tissue and intramyocardial fat with right atrium/ventricle morphology in persons with/ without cardiovascular diseases on autopsy. Depending on the degree of cardiac visceral obesity respectively epicardial adipose tissue, we assume that the excessive fat accumulation will cause the accumulation of fat cells into the right atrium and right ventricle free wall with subsequent remodeling. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r1"><italic>1</italic></xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r3"><italic>3</italic></xref>)</p>
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