Muscular false tendons, aberrant left ventricular papillary musculature, and severe electrocardiographic repolarisation abnormalities: a new syndrome.
Three patients (age 18-39 years; two men) with normal exercise capacity, normal left ventricular function, large muscular false tendons within the left ventricle, and anomalously placed papillary muscles associated with giant T wave inversion on the electrocardiogram are described. The absence of adverse cardiovascular events at long-term follow up (mean 13 years) indicates that this is a benign unrecognised syndrome.
Sutton
M G
MG
Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London.
Dubrey
S
S
Oldershaw
P J
PJ
D000328:Adult; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011690:Purkinje Fibers / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013577:Syndrome