Jesús Álvarez-García1, Miquel Vives-Borrás2, Pedro Gomis2

  • 1From Cardiology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB-SantPau, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (J.A.-G., M.V.-B., A.F.-G., A.S.-P., J.C.); Department ESAII, EUETIB, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain (P.G.); and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, IIB-SantPau, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (J.O.-L.). jalvarezg@santpau.cat.

Circulation
|May 7, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

冠動脈血管形成手術中の急性心房不全は 心筋損傷を増加させ,心房細動のような心房不律を引き起こします. 冠動脈疾患の患者では,心房不全が心房細動を引き起こす可能性があることを示唆しています.

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