Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of Lipomatous Metaplasia in Patients with Prior Myocardial Infarction (Letter)

Abstract

It has been noted recently, initially in pathological specimens, that infarcted myocardium can be infil- trated by adipose cells, known as lipomatous meta- plasia (LM). It has been suggested that the presence of myocardial fat may interfere with the conduction system of the heart, perhaps providing a substrate for sudden cardiac death.