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What is the most common heart disease and the leading cause of death in heart diseases?

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Coronary Artery Disease

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What are the 2 common types of Ischemic Heart Disease (CAD)?

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Myocardial Infarction

Angina

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What are the risk factors for Ischemic Heart Disease (CAD)?

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Increasing age - Males
Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia (LDL)
Smoking and Diabetes

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What usually causes Ischemic Heart Disease?

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Atherosclerosis

Coronary A. Emboli

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What is the most common site of Coronary Artery Disease?

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LAD

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What determines dominance in the heart?

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Supply of lower posterior heart through the Posterior Descending Artery

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The Posterior Descending Artery supplies the ___ node

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AV node

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The posterior descending artery determines?

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Dominance

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Right Dominant Heart

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The right coronary provides the Posterior Descending Artery and supplies the lower posterior heart

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Left Dominant Heart

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– less common

The left coronary provides the Posterior Descending Artery and supplies the lower posterior heart

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Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction?

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  • Crushing/stabbing/squeezing substernal chest pain
  • Radiates to shoulder, neck, jaw
  • Rapid, weak pulses and profuse sweating
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Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction?

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  • Crushing/stabbing/squeezing substernal chest pain
  • Radiates to shoulder, neck, jaw
  • Rapid, weak pulses and profuse sweating
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What are the most sensitive and specific biomarkers of myocardial damage?

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Troponin T and i

cTnT and cTnI

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What are the most sensitive and specific biomarkers of myocardial damage?

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Troponin T and i

cTnT and cTnI

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What is a sensitive but NOT specific marker of cardiac injury?

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Creatine Kinase

- MB Heterdimer (CKMB)

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What is a sensitive but NOT specific marker for cardiac injury?

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Creatine Kinase

- MB Heterodimers (CKMB)

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What is the time to ELEVATION of CKMB, cTnT, cTnI with a MI?

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3-12 hours with peak at 24 hours

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Can a person be experiencing a MI without Troponin elevation?

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YES – takes 3 hours for the troponins to elevate and MI symptoms can occur within 30 minutes

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What is the time to NORMALIZATION for CKMB?

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48-72 hours

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What is the time to NORMALIZATION for cTnT and cTnI?

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Longer than 5 days

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What should you measure if you believe a person is having a MI but their troponins are not elevated?

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Serial Troponins

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LAD transmural infarct zone?

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Apex and Anterior

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Left Circumflex transmural infarct zone?

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Left ventricle lateral wall

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Right coronary transmural infarct zone?

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Right and Posterior

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With a MI, transmural infarcts are common. What is another pattern of injury and when does it occur?
= Subendocardial infarct Occurs after: 1. Reperfusion of transmural infarct 2. Global hypotension
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Reperfusion of transmural infarct that causes a subendocardial infarct is a ____ infarct
Regional
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Global hypotension that occurs after a subendocardial infarct is a _____ infarct
Circumferential
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible injury of the heart | - less than 4 hours?
Waviness of fibers
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible injury of the heart | - 4-12 hours?
Edema and Coagulation necrosis
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible Injury of the heart | - 12-24 hours?
Coagulation necrosis continues, Contraction band and increased eosinophils
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible Injury of the heart | - 1-3 days?
Increased neutrophils and loss of nuclei
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What does the gross infarct look like on the heart after 1-3 days?
Yellow-tan infarct center
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible Injury of the heart | - 3-7 days?
Disintegration of dead fibers by Macrophages
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible Injury of the heart | - 7-10 days?
Granulation tissue at margins
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Morphologic changes with an Irreversible Injury of the heart | - 2 weeks and beyond?
Granulation tissue and Collagen Deposition
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At 2-8 weeks post irreversible injury of the heart, how will the infarct area look?
Gray-white scar
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Early complications of MI?
1. Life threatening Arrhythmias | 2. Contractile dysfunction
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An early complication of a MI is life threatening arrhythmias. When do they occur and what are they the #1 cause of?
Occur within 1 hour of the onset | - #1 cause of death
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An early complication of a MI is contractile dysfunction. What does that depend on and what does it lead to?
Depends on the size of the infarct | - Leads to cardiogenic shock within 24 hours of onset
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Intermediate complications of a MI?
Myocardial rupture
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When does a myocardial rupture occur and what are parts can rupture?
Occurs 2-4 days after a MI | - septal, papillary or free wall rupture
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What can a Myocardial rupture lead to?
Acute Pericarditis | fibrinous, serofibrinous
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Late complications of a MI?
1. Dressler Syndrome 2. Ventricular aneursym with life threatening arrhythmias 3. Congestive Heart Failure
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Dressler Syndrome
Immune reaction to myocardial proteins in the blood = Fever, pleuritic pain and pericardial effusion -- Late complication of MI
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Dressler Syndrome
Immune reaction to myocardial proteins in the blood = fever, pleuritic pain and pericardial effusion -- late complication of MI
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How does a Ventricular Aneurysm arise?
MI -> Transmural infarct -> thin-walled scar -> aneurysm
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Angina Pectoris
Recurrent chest pain induced by myocardial ischemia that is insufficient to induce myocardial infarction
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Recurrent chest pain induced by myocardial ischemia that is insufficient to induce myocardial infarction
Angina pectoris
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3 types of Angina?
Stable Angina Prinzmetal Variant Angina Unstable Angina
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Stable Angina is caused by?
Stenotic occlusion of Coronary A. | **** (+) by physical activity!
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What will trigger Stable Angina?
Physical activity or stress
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What will relieve the pressure/squeezing pain of Stable Angina and Prinzmetal Variant Angina?
Rest or vasodilators
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Prinzmetal Variant Angina is caused by?
Episodic Coronary A. spasm
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Is Prinzmetal Variant Angina triggered by physical activity?
NO - unrelated to activity, BP or HR
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Unstable Angina is caused by?
Rupture plaque with partial thrombus/occlusion
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When will Unstable Angina present?
AT REST
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What pattern of pain will be experienced with Unstable Angina?
Crescendo pattern | = Increasing severity or duration
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Unstable Angina and NSTEMI present due to partial occlusions. What will be present with a NSTEMI but not unstable angina?
Elevated troponins
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STEMI's are ____ occlusions
Complete
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If a patient presents with stereotypical signs of a MI, what kind should be suspected?
STEMI
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If a MVC causes trauma to the heart, what will likely occur?
Cardiac contusion
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If a cardiac contusion is full thickness, what can occur?
Contusion rupture and blood goes into the pericardial space = cardiac tamponade
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If a cardiac contusion is full thickness, what can occur?
Contusion rupture and blood goes into pericardial space = cardiac tamponade
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Results of cardiac tamponade?
HYPOtension and possibly death because the heart cannot pump well
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Results of Cardiac Tamponade?
HYPOtension and possible death because the heart cannot pump well

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