Muscular false tendons, aberrant left ventricular papillary musculature, and severe electrocardiographic repolarisation abnormalities: a new syndrome

M G Sutton; S Dubrey; P J Oldershaw

doi:10.1136/hrt.71.2.187

. 1994 Feb;71(2):187–190. doi: 10.1136/hrt.71.2.187

Muscular false tendons, aberrant left ventricular papillary musculature, and severe electrocardiographic repolarisation abnormalities: a new syndrome.

M G Sutton ¹, S Dubrey ¹, P J Oldershaw ¹

PMCID: PMC483643 PMID: 8130030

Abstract

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.