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They aren't. They lie dormant next to the rest of the healthy heart tissue ... because it is riskier, medically, to remove these cells (through a highly complex operation) than to just leave them in place. The necrotic cells, though dead, still perform the function of structurally holding the myocardium in place. If they were removed, the heart muscle wall would be structurally weaker, as a whole.

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