AI Article Synopsis
- Lipomatous metaplasia in scars from chronic heart attacks is often overlooked but significant in histopathological studies and cardiac MRI.
- This condition can change how electrical signals travel in the heart, potentially leading to dangerous heart rhythms following a heart attack.
- A case study illustrates a patient with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, where lipomatous metaplasia was discovered in the scar tissue from a previous myocardial infarction.
Article Abstract
Lipomatous metaplasia in chronic postmyocardial infarction scars is a common and underappreciated finding seen in histopathology and cardiac MRI. Evidence suggests that lipomatous metaplasia is capable of altering the electroconductivity of the myocardium leading to re-entry pathways that are implicated in the pathogenesis of postmyocardial infarction arrhythmogenesis. We report a case of a patient who presented with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia and was found to have lipomatous metaplasia of a prior myocardial infarct-related scar.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7986890 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240626 | DOI Listing |
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