Basic Sciences - Anatomy of Heart and Major Vessels Flashcards
Layers of the pericardium
Fibrous
Parietal
Visceral
Attachments of the fibrous pericardium
Great vessels
Posterior aspect of sternum
Central tendon of diaphragm
3 cusps of the tricuspid valve
Septal
Inferior
Anterior
Attachments of tricuspid valve
Attached to fibrous atrioventricular ring
Free edges and inferior surfaces attached by chordae tendinae to papillary muscles to RV wall
Lining of right ventricle
Trabeculated muscle
Infundibulum definition
Smooth wall right ventricle outflow tract (RVOT)
Leaflets of mitral valve
Anterior
Posterior
Area of left ventricle which does not have prominent trabeculae
LVOT
(Left ventricular outflow tract)
Conduction pathways of the heart
Internodal tracts exist bit conduction through atria is normally non specific but synchronous
Most common vascular supply to sinoatrial node
Right coronary artery (in 65% of people)
Most common vascular supply to atrioventricular node
Right coronary artery (in 80% of people)
Path of right coronary artery
Arises from anterior aortic sinus
Descends in atriventricular groove
Reaches posterior interventricular groove
Right marginal artery arises from RCA
Source of left coronary arteries
Arises from left posterior aortic sinus
Branches of Left coronary artery
LAD (Left anterior descending artery)
Circumflex
Branches from LAD artery
Diagonal branches
Septal perforating branches