cardiac myocytes have multiple cell autonomous mechanisms that facilitate stabilization and repair of damaged sarcolemmal membranes following myocardial injury. Dysferlin is a protein which facilitates membrane repair by promoting membrane resealing. Although prior studies have shown that dysferlin-deficient (Dysf −/−) mouse hearts have an impaired recovery from acute ischemia/ reperfusion (I/R) injury ex vivo, the role of dysferlin in mediating the recovery from myocardial injury in vivo is unknown. Here we show that Dysf −/− mice develop adverse LV remodeling following i/R injury secondary to the collateral damage from sustained myocardial inflammation within the infarct zone. Backcrossing Dysf −/− mice with mice lacking signaling through the Toll-Interleukin 1 Receptor Domain-Containing Adaptor Protein (Tirap −/−), attenuated inflammation and abrogated adverse LV remodeling following I/R injury. Subsequent studies using Poloxamer 188 (P188), a membrane resealing reagent, demonstrated that P188 did not attenuate inflammation nor prevent adverse LV remodeling in Dysf −/− mice following i/R injury. Viewed together these studies reveal a previously unappreciated role for the importance of membrane sealing and the resolution of inflammation following myocardial injury. The sarcolemmal phospholipid bilayer membrane that envelopes cardiac myocytes is essential for cell viability by providing a structural barrier function that separates the cytosolic components of the cell from the extracellular environment, as well as a crucial functional role by integrating important cellular functions, such as excitation contraction coupling. Given the importance of the sarcolemma to cell viability, it is not surprising that cardiac myocytes have multiple cell autonomous mechanisms that facilitate stabilization and repair of damaged sarcolemmal membranes. These include sarcolemma phospholipid rearrangements at the site of very small disruptions/ injury in order to promote membrane resealing, as well as several endogenous mechanisms that are activated in order to repair damage to preserve muscle cell integrity and viability (reviewed in 1,2). In myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury the integrity of the cardiac sarcolemma is severely stressed during ischemia and reperfusion, which leads to membrane tears, blebbing and rupture, and directly contributes to cardiac myocyte dysfunction and cardiac myocyte cell death 3. The loss of sarcolemmal barrier function can also lead to additional myocardial damage days to weeks following reperfusion secondary to the brisk inflammatory response that ensues following the release of damage associated molecular patterns [DAMPs] by dying cells. DAMPs released by necrotic cardiac myocytes are sufficient to provoke a brisk inflammatory response in the heart that requires intact signaling through Toll-like receptors (TLR4) that are present on the cell surface of cardiac myocytes and cardiac resident immune cells 4,5 .