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Myocardial scarring is fibrous tissue that replaces normal tissue destroyed by injury or disease pertaining to the muscular tissue of the heart.

Myocardial scarring occurs in myocardial infarction, and also results from the surgical repair of congenital heart disease. Such scarring can disrupt the electrical conduction system of the heart, and may also irritate surrounding viable ventricular myocytes making them more likely to depolarize spontaneously.

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CD/CHD	CAD · Coronary thrombosis · Coronary vasospasm · Coronary artery aneurysm · Coronary artery dissection · Myocardial Bridge

Active ischemia	Angina pectoris (Prinzmetal's angina, Stable angina) · Acute coronary (Unstable angina, Myocardial infarction / heart attack)

Sequelae	hours (Myocardial stunning, Hibernating myocardium) · days (Myocardial rupture) · weeks (Aneurysm of heart/Ventricular aneurysm, Dressler's syndrome)

Layers

Endocarditis	Infective endocarditis (Subacute bacterial endocarditis) · noninfective endocarditis (Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, Libman-Sacks endocarditis)

Valves	mitral (regurgitation, prolapse, stenosis) · aortic (stenosis, insufficiency) · tricuspid (stenosis, insufficiency) · pulmonary (stenosis, insufficiency)

Supraventricular	Atrial (Multifocal) · Junctional (AV nodal reentrant, Junctional ectopic)

Ventricular	Torsades de pointes · Catecholaminergic polymorphic · Accelerated idioventricular rhythm