Cardio Flashcards
What does the truncus arteriosus become?
- Ascending aorta
2. Pulmonary artery
What does the bulbus cordis become?
Becomes the conus cordis with inturn becomes the smooth part of L/R ventricular outflow tracks
What does right / left horn of sinus venosus become?
Right: Smooth part of right atrium
Left: coronary sinus
What forms the SVC?
Right anterior cardinal vein and common cardinal vein
Where does the SVC drain?
Right side of heart
When does heart start beating?
4th week, think, “4 chambers” and also 4 limbs
What is dextrocardia?
When heart is located in right side of thorax
- Spleen and liver often commonly switched as well
What is kartagener syndrome?
Mutation in L to R dynein microtubule protein of cillia:
- Dextrocardia
- Infertility
- URIs
What is the septum primum?
- Small piece of tissue to come down between L / R atria forming the ostium primum
- Reaches down to fuse w/ endocardial cushion
- Once it connects to cushion on bottom, top undergoes apoptosis forming ostium secundum
What happens when septum primum fuses with endocardial cushion?
- Ostium secundum forms where septum primum was so R/L atria still have a communication
- Septum secundum begins to come down to flap over it `
- Septum 1 / 2 are now flapping next to each other with one coming from top and one from bottom
What is an ostium?
Synonym for foramen
What becomes the foramen ovale?
The foramen secundum
What is the goal in forming foramen ovale?
- Creating a valve / flap to prevent blood flowing from left to right atrium
- The septum primum at bottom is acting as valve with higher pressure in R atria allowing it to open
- Blood can / and is wanted to flow R / L allowing oxygenated blood from mother to enter L atria
What happens to foramen ovale at birth?
- Pressure in R atria drops dramatically as pulm circuit opens when baby breathes
What is the fossa ovalis?
Remnant of the foramen ovale once pulm circuit opens and the septum 1 / 2 push together and fibrose
What is an embolism on brain indicative of?
Patent foramen ovale allowing DVT to move from R to L atria and into brain
***Normally DVTs will embolize in lung
What is cause of paradoxic embolism in brain?
Patent foramen ovale
Does muscular part of ventricular septum form from top of bottom of chambers?
Left and right ventricular muscular walls meet medially at bottom pushing muscle up from bottom to top
- Interventricular foramen is left and will be close by membranous interventricular septum coming from top
What is membranous interventricular septum derived from?
- Endocardial cushion
- Comes from top to bottom to close ventricular foramen
- **More likely to break as muscle is stronger
What causes transposition of great vessels?
Failure of AV septum to properly rotate is it descends
What is problem of great vessel transposition?
- Aorta connected to RV
- Pulm A connected to LV
What is necessary for great vessel swapping to be viable?
One of the following allowing blood to mix:
- VSD
- ASD
- Patent ovale
Cause of tetralogy of fallot? What is seen?
Anterior and lateral displacement of of ventricular septum:
- Pulmonary stenosis
- Open VSD with R -> L shunt
- RVH
- Overriding aorta: sits over VSD
What is persistent truncus arteriosus?
- No septum formed to separate pulm artery and aorta
- One vessel draining both ventricles
What forms valves?
Endocardial cushion tissue
What is an atretic valve?
Valve that does not form
Which side is tricuspid on?
RIght
What is an atretic tricuspid valve?
- One that does not effectively separate Right A / V
- RV becomes extremely tiny and LV is huge
What is ebstein’s anomaly?
- Problem with apoptosis of tricuspid = leaflets tethered to myocardium
- Right ventricle becomes atrialized as it appears RA descends into RV
When does fetal erythropoiesis being?
Week 3 in the yolk sac
When and where is fetal blood made?
"Young liver synthesizes blood" Yolk sac Liver: week 6 - birth Spleen: 10 - 28 week Bones: week 18
What happens in beta thalassemia?
Hepatosplenomegaly because parts of body that synthesized blood in utero not begin to do so again
Why does fetal hemoglobin have higher O2 binding affinity?
Binds 2-3 BPG much less avidly
What is 2-3 BPG byproduct of? What does it do?
- Glycolysis
- Binds and stabilizes deoxy hgB decreasing O2 binding
- This occurs to increase O2 delivery
Where is highest fetal O2 saturation?
Umbilical vein
Fate of blood in umbilical vein?
Portal circulation / vein: 1/3
Ductus venosus: other 2/3 bypasses liver
What does ductus venosus connect to?
IVC bypasses liver
What do the great vessels supply?
The brain
What type of blood is in SVC in fetus? To where does it go
- Very low oxygenation as it is returning blood from brain
- Heads to RV or lungs
- The rest is shunted across ductus arteriosus which is AFTER great vessels as we do not want low O2 blood going to brain
- Allows deoxygenated blood to aorta then to veins and umbilical artery
What happens to DA when baby is separated from placenta?
- High O2 in lungs = dilation
- Cutting cord = great decrease in PGE2 causing uterus and DA to contract
What is ligamentum arteriosum?
Remnant of ductus arteriosus
What drug closes PDA?
- Want to inhibit COX to drop PGE
- INDOMETHACIN is drug of choice
What is allontos?
- Outgrowth of yolk sac helping form umbilical vessels
- Proximal portion drains urinary bladder and becomes urachus
- Normally becomes median umbilical ligament
What do umbilical arteries become?
Medial umbilical ligament
What is median umbilical ligament derived from?
Urachus
What does umbilical vein become?
Ligamentum teres hepatis
What is fossa ovalis?
Remnant of foramen ovale
What is remnant of ductus arteriosus?
Ligamentum arteriosum
What loops the ligamentum arteriosum?
Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
What does PDA sounds like?
Pan systolic / diastolic machine like murmur
Infection associated with congenital PDA?
Rubella
What is a holosystolic murmur at left sternal border?
VSD
What does sorbitol dehydrogenase turn sorbitol into?
Fructose
What does RNA polymerase I, II, III do?
I: Ribosomal RNA, only in nucleolis
II: Messenger RNA
III: tRNA
Does a larger or smaller alveoli have higher pressure in it?
Smaller, causing air to flow into larger alveoli
What does surfactant do?
Decreases surface tension
What allows for an indirect inguinal hernia?
Patent processes vanginalis
What can patent process vanginalis lead to?
- Hydrocele
2. Indirect inguinal hernia
Type of hernia seen in kids?
Indirect inguinal
Difference between malingering and factitious disorder?
In malingering you are looking to gain something tangible, nothing other than attention is gained in factitious
*Goal is to assume sick role in factitious
What does the 12th rib overly?
Kidney
Treatment to prevent HIV transmission if woman is pregnant?
Antiretrovirals
What does V1 / 2 stimulation cause?
V1: vasoconstriction and PG release
V2: ADH response
What do the Various HPVs cause?
1 - 4: skin warts
6, 11: Condyloma accuminata
16, 18: Cancer
What drains the testes?
Para aortic nodes
What do the deep inguinal nodes drain?
- Glans penis
- Superficial nodes
- Posterior calf
What do superficial inguinal node drain?
- Scrotum
2. Nearly all cutaneous lymph from belly button to feet
Sign of chronic organ rejection?
- Vascular wall thickening q
2. Fibrosis
What are the causes of early cyanosis?
Right to left shunts “eaRLy”
- Truncus arteriosus
- Transposition of great vessels
- Tricuspid atresia
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- TAPVR
What is persistent truncus arteriosus? Other defect often associated?
- Septum that divides ascending aorta and pulm artery did not develop
- Caused by failure of neural crest cells
- Blood from R/L V are mixing before leaving heart
- *Almost always seen with VSD as the septum that would divide great vessels would also form membranous portion of ventricular septum
What is transposition of great vessels?
- Aorta comes off RV
- Pulm artery comes off LV
- **Blood does not mix at all so another defect is necessary to make viable
What is tricuspid atresia? What is needed to make viable?
- Little to no communication between RV/RA
* **ASD and VSD necessary for life
What is happening in tetralogy? Treatment?
- VSD
- Overriding aorta
- Pulmonary artery stenosis: forces blood through VSD which is where cyansosis comes from
- RVH
***Boot shaped heart seen on CXR
Fix the VSD
What is boot shaped heart on CXR indicative of?
Tetralogy of Fallot
What is a tet spell?
- Cyanosis seen in kid with tetralogy of fallot due to decreased O2 flow to brain
- Fix by doing a squat to increase PVR which forces blood back through pulmonary circulation
What is a kid squatting indicative of?
Tetralogy of fallot
What is TAPVR?
- Both R/L pulmonary vein drain to RA
- Should be going to LA so no oxygenated blood is making to body
What is Ebstein anomaly? Cause?
- Often caused by Li
- Tricuspid valve does not separate and is tethered down to RV wall causing extension into RA “Atrialization of RV”
- Massive tricuspid regurg since valves can’t close
- Right sided HF is main game
What is atrialization of RV indicative of?
- Ebstein anomaly
What are the L -> R shunts in order of frequency?
VSD > ASD > PDA
*VSD most likely to close on own
Normal cause of VSD?
- Endocardial cushion defect leading to failure of membranous portion of septum
What makes the ostium secundum? What causes senundum ASD?
- Perforation in septum primum during development
- Septum secundum does not grow to cover ostium
Where does the DA connect?
- Connects aortic arch distal to L subclavian
- Is connecting the pulm artery and aorta
- Allows blood to flow from RV to aortic arch while in womb to go to lower body
- Foramen ovale is sending blood from R->L though great vessels to upper extremities
What happens in PDA?
- Pulm vascular resistance has dropped so oxygenated blood from aorta is shunted back into lungs rather than rest of body
Continuous machine like murmur?
PDA
Presentation of PDA?
- Machine like murmur
- Upper extremities well perfused because great vessels are before PDA
- However, when heads for descending, blood is shunted to lungs as lower resistance = lower extremity cyanosis
What is eisenmenger syndrome?
- Reversal of L/R shunt to R/L shunt
- Increase in pulmonary flow from L/R = vascular remodeling and pulm HTN = reversal of shunt as systemic is now lower pressure
- **Late cyanosis as remodeling takes time
What does endothelin 1 do?
- Vasoconstric
2. Recruit vascular smooth muscle
How does clubbing occur?
- Low O2 in blood
Associations with Coarctation of aorta?
- Turner syndrome
2. Bicuspid aorta
Presentation of coarctation?
- BP in upper extremities > lower
Blood flow in coarctation?
- Narrowing of descending aorta pushes blood to Internal thoracic
- From thoracic to anterior intercostals, to posterior intercostals
- Posterior connects with aorta distal to coarctation = normal flow resumed
* **Leads to characteristic notching under ribs
Where do intercostals run related to ribs?
Inferior
What is rib notching indicative of?
Coarctation of aorta
What is misplaced in tetralogy?
Infundibular septum
Presentation of fetal alcohol syndrome?
- Thin upper lip
- Small eye openings
- Smooth philtrum
- Short palpebral fissures
- VSD / ASD / PDA
Cardiac effects of Down syndrome?
- Endocardial cushion defects as chromosome 21 codes for this area
- Cushion = septum formation
- Ostium primum ASD
CV problems in diabetic mother?
- Transposition of great vessels
CV problem in marfans?
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Aortic regurg
- Aortic aneurism from weak walls
What does Li put the heart at risk or?
Ebstein’s anomaly
Heart association in turner’s?
- Bicuspid aorta
2. Coarctation
Cardiac anomaly in Williams syndrome?
- Supravalvular aortic stenosis
What does mutation in 22q11 cause re. heart?
- Tetralogy
- Truncus arteriosus
* *Problem with neural crest communication
What does BP need to be for HTN and urgency?
HTN: > 140
Urgency: > 180
Normal cause of secondary HTN?
RAAS activation:
- HYPERaldosteronism
- Decreased RBF
What is fibromuscular dysplasia?
- Cause of secondary HTN in young women
- Fibrosis of tunica media leading to aneurysmal like dilatation of artery blocking renal blood flow
Tunica layers of vessels from in to out?
- Intima
- Media
- Externa
What is happening in papilledema?
- Swelling of optic disk
- Sign of hypertensive emergency
- Caused by swelling = decrease drainage of CSF out of eye area
- Increased pressure damages retinal A/V
What is vasa vasorum?
Small vessels providing outer layers of vessels with flow
What is corneal arcus?
- Blue ring in cornea from deposition of cholesterol
Difference between arteriosclerosis and arteriolosclerosis?
Arteriolosclerosis: Extra LO means smaller vessels
When is hyaline arteriolosclerosis seen?
- HTN - high pressure pushes proteins in basement membrane damaging endothelium = collagen
- Diabetes mellitus - non enzymatic glycosylation = ROS
- Damages endothelium via cytokines
When is onion skinning seen?
Extremely high BPs
What happens in monkeberg?
- Idiopathic deposition of Ca
- Pipe stemming of arteries
Female risk factor for atherosclerosis?
> 50 yo: post menopause as estrogen was protective by increasing HDL
What does LDL do to vessels?
- Attached to proteoglycans in vessel wall so attach
- Become oxidized = ROS damaging endothelium
- Endothelial cells express VCAM1 “Vascular cell adhesion molecule 1”
- Also release MPC1 “Monocyte chemotactic protein 1”
- **Combination of these 2 allow macs to enter vessel walls
What is VCAM1?
“Vascular cell adhesion molecule 1”
- Produced by endothelial cells in response to LDL damage
What recruits smooth muscle in atherosclerosis?
- Macs production of PDGF moves muscle from media to intima
- Fibroblast GF tells fibroblasts to deposit as well
Where is greatest risk for AAA and why?
- Below renal bifurcation as vessel here has no vaso vasorum
Presentation of aortic aneurism?
- Pulsatile mass
2 Low BP: from bleeding
Risk factors for thoracic aortic aneurism?
- HTN
- Marfan’s
- Ehlers Danlos
- Tertiary syphilis: enter vaso vasorum leading to inflammation
What is cystic medial degeneration?
- Degeneration of elastin and vascular smooth muscle in media = tissue replaced with cysts
- Cause of thoracic aneurysm
What do deceleration injuries often cause?
Thoracic aneurysm
What is aortic isthmus?
Transition zone between ascending and descending aorta at most risk for rupture
Last thing to tear before aortic rupture?
Adventitia
What is happening in aortic dissection? Presentation?
- Intimal tear allowing blood flow into media
Presents with:
1. Sudden onset, tearing chest pain radiation to back
2. Unequal BP in arms: compression of left subclavian but not right
3. Tamponade blood around heart
What is “Sudden onset tearing chest pain radiation to back” indicative of?
Aortic dissection