Human subjects with excessive trabeculated myocardium in the left ventricle, for example, are diagnosed with non-compaction cardiomyopathy, but the extent of trabeculations may be without relation to ejection fraction. Rather than rejecting a relation between form and function, we may ask whether the...
Subsequent growth of the ventricle occurs almost exclusively by the compact wall (Figure 2) [42–44]. Some trabeculated myocardium persists in the adult heart, but it is proportionally much reduced [45]. If cardiac functional measures such as mean arterial pressure are assessed during gestation,...