1 - Cardiac Anatomy Flashcards
What determines the mechanical capacity of the heart? (5)
- Cartilaginous skeleton
- Fibers
- Valves
- Coronary blood supply
- Conduction system
This provides a useful framework for the analysis of atrial and ventricular systolic and diastolic function.
Pressure-volume diagram
Determines the pump performance (4)
- Heart rate
- Preload
- Afterload
- Myocardial contractility
Is the external resistance to chamber emptying after contraction begins and the aortic valve opens.
Afterload
Amount of blood that a chamber contains immediately before contraction.
Preload
Is the force of contraction under controlled heart rate and loading conditions
Myocardial contractility
Contractility may be quantified using the fall (3)
- Pressure-volume relation
- Isovolumic contraction
- Ejection phase analysis
What defines the diastolic function?
The ability of a cardiac chamber to effectively collect blood at a normal filling pressure
The atria contains what type of myocardium?
Thin orthogonal bands
The LV and RV contain what types of muscle layers (3)
- Deep sinospiral
- Superficial sinospiral
- Superficial bulbs spiral
How are the myocardial fibers of the LV are arranged (3)?
- Perpendicular
- Oblique
- Helical
How are midmyocardial fibers arranged?
Circumferential
These are irregular ridges of the sudendocardium present within the RV chamber and to a lesser extent the LV apex.
Trabeculae carnae
True or False
The LV apex and interventricular septum are relatively fixed in space within the mediastinum during contraction and relaxation.
True
LV’s lateral and posterior walls shifts movement towards which position during systole?
Anterior and to the right
Movement of which side of the heart is responsible for the point of maximal intensity?
Lateral and posterior LV walls
The crescent-shaped R is located in reference to the LV?
Anterior
Right
Are dilated segments of the aortic root immediately superior to each aortic leaflet.
Sinuses of Valsalva
Act as restricting cables to limit the superior motion of the mitral leaflets, facilitating their computation
Chordae tendinae
Common cause of mitral regurgitation
Chordal rupture
Are composed of subendocardial myocardium that contract with the LV.
Papillary muscles
Lateral segment of myocardium stretching between the apical aspects of anterior & septal papillary muscles
Moderator band
Which valve does not have a collagenous annulus?
Tricuspid valve
This morphology distinguishes the RV from LV.
Septal papillary muscle
What is the structure that is found in the mitral valve and which is not found in the tricuspid valve?
Collagenous annulus
What is lies in the attioventricular groove that must be carefully avoided during tricuspid valve repair or replacement?
Proximal right coronary artery
CORONARY BLOOD SUPPLY
What supplies blood to the LV? (3)
- LAD
- LCCA
- RCA
Most coronary blood flow to the “LV” occur during which part of the cardiac cycle?
Diastole
LAD supply which part of the myocardium? (3)
- Medial LV anterior wall
- Anterior 2/3rds of the interventricular septum
- LV apex