Project description:This study will report the incidence of atrial fibrillation after elective colorectal cancer resection in the over 65 age group. This will be used to validate a risk model for the development of post-operative atrial fibrillation.
Eligible patients will undergo electrocardiogram based screening for atrial fibrillation, as well as brain natriuretic peptide tests prior to surgery. They will undergo 24 hour holter monitor prior to surgery, and at 30 and 90 days following surgery.
The primary outcome will be occurrence of atrial fibrillation within 90 days of surgery. Secondary outcomes include quality of life change, use of hospital services for atrial fibrillation, and complications of atrial fibrillation. This will be used to validate the pre-existing model for prediction of atrial fibrillation.
Project description:Regional differential expression of atrial fibrillation risk genes in the left atrium and pulmonary veins is not well studied, but may yield insights into atrial fibrillation pathogenesis. We tested the hypothesis that there is significant regional differential expression in left atrium structures. RNAseq was performed in 25 regions within the pulmonary veins (n=12), left atrial body (n=10), and left atrial appendage (n=3) from a 75 year old male with hypertension and atrial fibrillation who died of a stroke. These data show that genes involved in atrial fibrillation pathogenesis have substantial regional expression heterogeneity, particularly when comparing the left atrial body, pulmonary veins and left atrial appendage.
Project description:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart arrhythmia disease. The greatest risk of atrial fibrillation is stroke, and stroke caused by valvular heart disease with atrial fibrillation (AF-VHD) is more serious. the development mechanism from VHD to AF-VHD is not yet clear. The research on expression profiles of lncRNA and mRNA is helpful to explore molecular mechanism in patients with valvular heart disease who develop atrial fibrillation.
Project description:We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profile in auricle tissue between controls and patients suffering from atrial fibrillation.
Project description:Electrical and structural remodeling processes are contributors to the self-perpetuating nature of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, their correlation has not been clarified. In this study, human atrial tissues from the patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease in either sinus rhythm or persistent AF were analyzed using a combined transcriptomic and proteomic approach. An up-regulation in chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) 1, 4, 5 and a rise in type IV collagen were revealed. Combined with the results from immunohistochemistry and electron microscope analysis, the distribution of type IV collagen and effects of fibrosis on myocyte membrane indicated the possible interaction between CLIC and type IV collagen, confirmed by protein structure prediction and co-immunoprecipitation. These results indicate that CLICs play an important role in the development of atrial fibrillation and that CLICs and structural type IV collagen may interact on each other to promote the development of AF in rheumatic mitral valve disease.
Project description:To establish changes in cardiomyocyte transcription profiles brought about by atrial fibrillation, we collected left atrial appendage samples from minipig induced by DOCA or DOCA and JK07 and from vehicle samples. The transcriptional profile of mRNA in these samples will be measured with high throughput technology. Changes in transcriptional profiles can be correlated with the physiologic profile of atrial fibrillation acquired at the time of harverst.
Project description:Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the difference of plasma circRNA between patients with atrial fibrillation and normal subjects by high-throughput sequencing results. Methods: Total RNA was extracted using a miRNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.Then, 200 ng RNA was sequenced with high throughput, and then pathway and go analysis were used for comprehensive analysis.Finally, RT-PCR method was used to validate in large sample population Results: High throughput sequencing results showed that there were significant differences in plasma circRNA expression between patients with atrial fibrillation and non-atrial fibrillation, and 2 optional circRNA in 12 randomly selected circRNA differences were found to be significant in the population Conclusions:It is the first time that we have used high-throughput sequencing to study the difference of plasma circrna between patients with atrial fibrillation and normal people. The results of sequencing show that the expression of circrna is quite different between the two groups of people. Therefore, we believe that circRNA may play an important role in the occurrence and development of atrial fibrillation.