Anatomy of the heart: Gilland Flashcards
What is the fold difference between the atria and ventricles?
The atria and ventricles can pump side by side for 2-3 billion cycles while maintaining a 4 to 8 fold difference in the systemic/pulmonary pressures
What maintains the seperation of the two circuits (pulmonary and systemic)?
The integrity of atrial and ventricular septa
Efficient pumping mechanism depends on what?
Depend on controlled spreading of myocyte excitation initiated at the SA pacemaker and relayed to the ventrciles by the cardiac conduction system
What regulates cardiac activity?
Vagal and Sympathetic interaction with myocardium and intrinsic cardiac neurons
Normal Aortic pressure
120/80 mm Hg
What is the distribution of blood in the body?
Heart - 15%
Brain - 15%
Liver - 10%
Intestine - 25%
Kidney - 20%
Skin ,skeletal, trunk, limbs - 25%
What is the anterior, inferior, and superior attachment of the pericardium?
Anterior - to fascia on deep surface of sternum
Inferiorly - to the central tendon of the diaphragm
Superiorly - to the great vessels
What is the fibrous pericardium?
- a tough conical collagenous, with small elastic fibers, cloak encasing the heart.
- Base is attached to the diaphragm
The lower portion of superior vena cava, aorta, and pulmoary trunck are encased in what?
Encased in pericardium
What provides innervation to the pericardium and diaphragm?
Phrenic nerve
(C3-C5)
Pericardial Cavity
potential space between parietal and visceral pericardua
Contains smal amount of pericadial fluid
(15-50mL)
What are the serous pericardial layers?
Parietal pericardium
Visceral pericardium (epicardium)
exude pericardial fluid which reduces friction during heart motion
Parietal PEricardium
shiny inner surface
Fused with fibrous pericardium
SENSITIVE TO PAIN
(innervation from afferent fibers of the phrenic nerve)
Pericardial pain is referred to where?
Referred to supraclavicular skin on the same side
Visceral pericardium (epicardium)
forms outer surface of heart
Covers myocardium and epicardial fat
Endocarium is made up of what?
squamous epithelium continuos with endothelium of arterial and venous system
What are the two spaces where fliud can collect within the pericardial cavity?
Oblique pericardial sinus
Transverse pericardial sinus
What is Cardiac tamponade?
Accumulation of fluid in pericardial space, whether from bleeding, over production of pericardial fluid or other causes results in increased pericardial pressure and eventual progressiely reduced ventricular filling.
Do you develop cardiac tamponade with slow accumulaiton of fluid?
Not initally
Slow accumulation of fluid can allow for stretching of pericardum, with build up of a liter of fluid before even getting Tamponade
Rapid accumulation, as with severe bleeding, allows no time for stretching of the pericardium. What this lead to?
Tamponade can occur with as liitle as 100 mL of fluid
Cardiac Tamponade results in what?
Pulmonary Edema
Shock
Death
When you orient the heart, Ventricles are _____ and Atria are ____.
Ventricles anterior
Atria posterior
What does the coronary sulcus seperate?
Seperate atria muscle from ventricle muscle
What forms most of the inferior surace of the heart?
Right ventricle
Sits on Central tendon
Which three structures are oriented along a verticle line in anatomical position?
Superior vena Cava
Right Atrium
Inferior Vena Cava
What is the purpose of the fibrous skeleton of the heart?
- Provides a strong framework for attachment of cardiac muscle fibers
- physically seperate atrial and venricular myocardia and blocks the spread of myocardial excitation across the atrioventricular border (coronary sulcus)
- support all 4 heart valves by provideing anchoring rings and also forms fibrous ribs in the semilunar valves
The fibrous skeleton comprise of what three things?
Fibrous rings
Fibrous trigones
Membranous portion of interventricular septum (septum membranacecum)
Fibrous rings
(partial)
around valves (anunuli fibrosi) and extension into semilunar leaflets
Fibrous trigones
between aortic valve and atrioventricular valves (trigone fibrosa)
What are the 4 openings in the Right atrium?
Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
coronary sinus
anterior cardiac sinus