Original Research Article A Study on Papillary Muscles of Ventricles in Human Adult Heart

Abstract

Papillary muscles are one of the important components of musculature of ventricles in the human heart. It plays an important role for proper cardiac valvular function of the heart. The shape of papillary muscle of right and left ventricles is important for the cardiac surgeons in surgical procedures like mitral valve replacement and use of mitral valve homograft for mitral/tricuspid replacement.