Echocardiographic Measurement of Epicardial Fat Thickness

Weng-Chio Tam^{1

2}, Ming-Hsiung Hsieh^{1

2}, Jong-Shiuan Yeh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital Taipei Medical University.
² Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Weng-Chio Tam et al. Acta Cardiol Sin. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;35(5):546-547.

doi: 10.6515/ACS.201909_35(5).20170922A.

Weng-Chio Tam^{1

2}, Ming-Hsiung Hsieh^{1

2}, Jong-Shiuan Yeh^{1

2}

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital Taipei Medical University.
² Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

No abstract available

Keywords: Echocardiography; Epicardial fat; Pericardial fat.

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