Fatty Images of the Heart: Spectrum of Normal and Pathological Findings by Computed Tomography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Figure 7

Cardiac CT after contrast medium administration in three different patients with postinfarction lipomatous metaplasia. (a) demonstrates a curvilinear hypodense fatty stripe with subendocardial distribution located in the anterior segment of the left ventricular myocardium in a short axis multiplanar reconstruction (red arrows). A similar finding is present in axial view (b) in the interventricular septum and left ventricular apex, also associated with tiny calcifications and wall thinning (red arrows). In (c) a lipomatous metaplasia involving the whole interventricular septum together with remarkable corresponding wall thinning is illustrated on a short axis multiplanar reconstruction (red arrows).

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