Data set for volumetric and pathological findings of epicardial adipose tissue

Toshiro Kitagawa; Hideya Yamamoto; Kazuhiro Sentani; Shinya Takahashi; Hiroshi Tsushima; Atsuhiro Senoo; Wataru Yasui; Taijiro Sueda; Yasuki Kihara

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.09.016

Data set for volumetric and pathological findings of epicardial adipose tissue

Data Brief. 2015 Sep 30:5:337-41. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.09.016. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Toshiro Kitagawa¹, Hideya Yamamoto¹, Kazuhiro Sentani², Shinya Takahashi³, Hiroshi Tsushima¹, Atsuhiro Senoo¹, Wataru Yasui², Taijiro Sueda³, Yasuki Kihara¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan.
² Department of Molecular Pathology, Hiroshima University Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.

Abstract

This article contains the data regarding clinically-assessed visceral adipose tissue (VAT) area and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume on computed tomography (CT) images and EAT pathology, represented by inflammation and neoangiogenesis, complementing the data reported by Kitagawa et al. [1]. In 45 patients scheduled for cardiac surgery, we studied CT images obtained prior to surgery and the numbers of CD68+ individual macrophages and CD31+ neovessels in EAT samples subsequently obtained during surgery. The data revealed a moderate correlation between VAT area and EAT volume, and a strong correlation between EAT macrophage infiltration and neoangiogenesis.