Taut and click: an unusual left ventricular false tendon

Cardiol Young. 2016 Oct;26(7):1435-7. doi: 10.1017/S1047951116000858. Epub 2016 Jun 20.

Abstract

A case of an asymptomatic child presenting with persistent systolic ejection click and found to have an unusual left ventricular false tendon attached to aortic valve that has not been described previously and may be responsible for the click.

Keywords: Left ventricle; ejection click; false tendon.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging*
  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Ventricles / abnormalities*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Stroke Volume
  • Tendons / diagnostic imaging*