Department of Cardiology, Hiroshima City Asa Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

Left atrial fibrosis after ischemic stroke: How the insular cortex-ganglionated plexi axis interacts?

Published in International Journal of Cardiology

We read the interesting study by Balint et al. [1], who reported that selective left or right insular cortex (IC) ischemic stroke in rats resulted specifically in left atrium (LA)-pulmonary vein (PV) border fibrosis, the pathological hallmark of atrial fibrillation (Af). LA-PV border fibrosis was suggested to be originated in local inflammation tri...