Myocardial infarct expansion and wall thinning are primarily driven by a decrease in the number of cells across the ventricular wall (myocyte slippage) rather than just cell stretch or rupture.
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Myocyte slippage may drive post-MI thinning; hypothesis-generating for cell-retention therapies pending human confirmation.
Weisman et al. (1988) studied this question.
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