ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 6

Extensive Fibrofatty Infiltration of the Left Ventricle in Two Cases of Sudden Cardiac Death
Collett, BA
Resident in Pathology and Assistant Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, NC

Davis, GJ
Resident in Pathology and Assistant Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, NC

Rohr, WB
County Medical Examiner, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, TX

(Received 14 February 1994; accepted 13 March 1994)

Abstract

Replacement of the myocardium by fibrous and adipose tissue is well documented in the right ventricle, but has been rarely described in the left ventricle. We present two cases of extensive fibrofatty infiltration of the left ventricle without significant right ventricular involvement in young men whose presenting symptom was sudden death.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, sudden death, fatty infiltration of myocardium

Paper ID: JFS13703J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS13703J
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