Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Intramyocardial hemorrhage drives fatty degeneration of infarcted myocardium

  • Ivan Cokic,
  • Shing Fai Chan,
  • Xingmin Guan,
  • Anand R. Nair,
  • Hsin-Jung Yang,
  • Ting Liu,
  • Yinyin Chen,
  • Diego Hernando,
  • Jane Sykes,
  • Richard Tang,
  • John Butler,
  • Alice Dohnalkova,
  • Libor Kovarik,
  • Robert Finney,
  • Avinash Kali,
  • Behzad Sharif,
  • Louis S. Bouchard,
  • Rajesh Gupta,
  • Mayil Singaram Krishnam,
  • Keyur Vora,
  • Balaji Tamarappoo,
  • Andrew G. Howarth,
  • Andreas Kumar,
  • Joseph Francis,
  • Scott B. Reeder,
  • John C. Wood,
  • Frank S. Prato,
  • Rohan Dharmakumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33776-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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It is unclear why hemorrhagic myocardial infarctions (hMI) are destined for adverse outcomes. Here, the authors show that hMI drives fatty degeneration of infarct territories and contributes to adverse remodeling of the heart, which can be mitigated via timely depletion of iron within the hMI zone.