cardio pathology key terms and important concepts Flashcards
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: The most common cause of right heart failure is __________
left heart failure.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2: _________ is right heart disease caused by pulmonary hypertensive diseases, especially emphysema, embolism and interstitial lung disease.
cor pulmonale
4 manifestations of RIGHT heart failure
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 3: Leg edema, hepatomegaly, ascites and jugular venous distention can all be manifestations of right heart failure.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 4: _________myocardial disease, especially __________, are a common anatomic substrate for fatal reentrant ventricular tachycardia
Small patches of myocardial disease, especially scarring
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 5: A cardiac arrhythmia, especially heart block, in a young African American suggests the possibility of _______________
cardiac sarcoidosis.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 6: A prolonged QT interval, corrected QT (QTc), over __________milliseconds is a signal of dangerous heart disease.
440
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 7: _________ of an infant, child or young adult is commonly due to familial disease and accurate diagnosis can yield life-saving interventions for other family members.
Sudden cardiac death
heart disease caused by lung disease
Cor pulmonale
disturbance in heart rhythm due to deranged cardiac electrical signaling
Arrhythmia
time from start of P wave to end of QRS, normally 120-200 ms, indicative of conduction block around AV node if prolonged
PR interval
time from start of QRS to end of T wave, normally <440 ms, dangerous if prolonged due to risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias
QT interval:
arrhythmia of chaotic atrial activation at a rapid rate causing an irregular heart rhythm due to variable conduction through the AV node
Atrial fibrillation
immediately life-threatening arrhythmia of chaotic ventricular activation at a rapid rate with lack of cardiac pumping
Ventricular fibrillation:
heart disease of arrhythmias due to defective cardiac myocyte ion channels, usually due to genetic mutations
Channelopathy
a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia with variation in QRS size and shape, creating an outline resembling a twisted ribbon on EKG
Torsades de pointes:
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: _________ are a classic sign of vasculitis.
Palpable purpura
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2: It behooves physicians who prescribe medications that cause___________ to recognize it and stop the drugs.
hypersensitivity angiitis
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 3: ____________for temporal arteritis can save elderly white females from blindness.
Steroid therapy
FYI: IMPORTANT CONCEPT 4: Prompt diagnosis and treatment of Kawasaki disease can save babies from chronic heart disease or death.
fyi
FYI: IMPORTANT CONCEPT 5: When heart failure occurs as a complication of acute myocardial infarction, it is important to differentiate the patients who will benefit from diuresis, volume expansion or neither.
fyi
heterogeneous group of uncommon, primarily autoimmune, occasion-nally life-threatening diseases, having in common inflammation of blood vessels
Vasculitis:
an acute necrotizing inflammatory disease of the smallest blood vessels (arterioles, capillaries, venules), especially in the skin
Hypersensitivity angiitis
giant cell arteritis, a granulomatous inflammatory disease of medium and larger arteries, especially in the head, in elderly white females
Temporal arteritis
mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, an acute childhood primary vasculitis of medium arteries, especially coronaries
Kawasaki disease
blood clot that forms on the lining of the heart or aorta over an abnormality in the wall, like a ________ painting on a wall
Mural thrombus:
impaired cardiac filling and function due to something in the pericardial sac compressing it (blood, other fluid or fibrous adhesions)
Cardiac tamponade:
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: A _______ml hemopericardium from a ruptured myocardial infarction can be fatal, but a _______ ml chronic pleural effusion can be tolerated
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: A 200 ml hemopericardium from a ruptured myocardial infarction can be fatal, but a 2000 ml chronic pleural effusion can be tolerated
components of Beck’s Triad
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2:
Jugular venous distention,muffled heart sounds and hypotension are Beck’s triad of physical findings of cardiac tamponade.
Acute Pericarditis most commonly idiopathic (viral), self-limited to 1-3 weeks with any 2 of of which symptoms?
- sharp substernal pleuritic positional chest pain
- pericardial friction rub
- diffuse upward concave ST segment elevation
- pericardial effusion
simultaneous inflammation of myocardium and pericardium, commonly attributed to viral infection
Myopericarditis:
jugular venous distention, muffled heart sounds and hypotension, signs of cardiac tamponade
Beck’s triad
define Pulsus paradoxus:
an exaggeration of the normal decrease in blood pressure with inspiration >10 mm Hg systolic, associated with cardiac tamponade or asthma
superficial scratchy or squeaking sound, frequently triphasic, associated with acute pericarditis
Pericardial friction rub
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: ________can cause hypertrophic or restrictive cardiomyopathy to take on features of dilated cardiomyopathy.
Decompensation
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is simultaneously a ____________and ________disease.
structural and functional disease.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 3: _______________ is the most common cause of sudden death of American athletes under age 35, but atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of sudden death of American athletes over age 35.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 4: ________________ is primarily a disease of older adults who present with heart failure.
Cardiac amyloidosis
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 5: ______________is primarily a disease of young African Americans who present with arrhythmias.
Cardiac sarcoidosis
fyi: IMPORTANT CONCEPT 6: As a general principle, some cardiomyopathies are more likely to present with heart failure and others with arrhythmias.
fyi
heterogeneous group of myocardial diseases associated with mechanical and/or electrical dysfunction of the heart
Cardiomyopathy
group of genetic diseases with hypertrophy as a compensatory mechanism for mutations in genes encoding contractile proteins of the cardiac sarcomere
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
wastebasket category of nonspecific end-stage heart disease with cardiac dilatation and heart failure and no cause evident
idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy:
benign gelatinous mesenchymal neoplasm of endocardium
Cardiac myxoma:
What are causes of a long QT?
- Ischemic heart disease
- Low K+, Ca+ or Mg+
- Channelopathy
- Many other things
What is the risk of early afterdepolarizations?
Ventricular tachycardia
What is the risk of ventricular tachycardia?
sudden cardiac death
The type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia typical of congenital long QT syndromes is called __________
torsades de pointes.
What is Brugada syndrome? most common in which population?
Group of channelopathies causing shortened cardiac myocyte action potentials and risk of ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death. Most common in young Asian males
how can brugada syndrome be recognized?
Persistently elevated ST segments (≥2 mm) descending with an upward convexity to an inverted T wave (classic “coved type“ Brugada pattern) in leads V1-V3 (present at rest)
Disease due to mutations in cardiac ryanodine receptor, sarcoplasmic calcium release channel, causing ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation during emotional or physical stress.
familial catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
What is the mechanism of arrhythmias?
Triggered activity resulting from delayed afterdepolarizations due to high intracellular calcium.
How many babies, children and young adults are estimated to die of channelopathies in the US each year?
4,000
Viral Myocarditis: Pathology
Gross: Pale mottled flabby dilated heart
Microscopic: Inflammation multifocal, interstitial, usually mononuclear (primarily lymphocytic) associated with myocyte injury and necrosis (not as confluent as in infarcts)
Disease due to mutations in genes encoding desmosomal proteins, probably with a second “hit”, possibly enteric viral infection of right heart. The disease causes reentrant ventricular tachycardia originating from the right ventricle, possibly related to abnormalities in myocyte adhesion via desmosomal proteins.
right ventricular cardiomyopathy
how does right ventricular cardiomyopathy begin?
The disease begins in right ventricle with fatty replacement of myocytes, frequently with lymphocytic infiltration and later fibrous scarring.
Epsilon wave (notch in terminal part of QRS) [most prominent in lead V1] (present at rest) reflecting abnormal right ventricular activation can be a manifestation of ___________
right ventricular cardiomyopathy
What is the life-saving preventative treatment for right ventricular cardiomyopathy?
defibrillator
what all lung diseases that cause cor pulmonale have in common is ____________
pulmonary HTN
how many americans die each year from sudden cardiac death?
250,000
which section of the heart does sarcoidosis favor?
base of heart
what is the limit of sinus tachycardia?
sinus tachycardia will not go over a rate of 220-patient’s age
describes which arrythmia: rhythm is irregular; the rate is high or normal(60-220) and there ARE NO P WAVES
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION(more than 3 million americans have AFIB)
which arrhythmia is described: results from reentrant circuit around tricuspid valve; usually features two P-waves for each QRS complex and yields a HR around 150/min
atrial flutter
________is usually due to a reentrant pathway in the atria right near the AV node. it responds to home remedy vagal maneuvers such as a Valsalva maneuver, carotid sinus massage
supraventricular tachycardia
polymorphic ventricular tach can degenerate into ___________
ventricular fibrillation (immediately life threatening)
define v-fib
totally disordered rapid stimulation of ventricles
which condition?
**epi: **1/500 (2:1 M:F); most common cause of sudden death in young athletes
**features: **Genetic diseases of contractile proteins;Feature in common: compensatory hypertrophy
clinical features: Asymmetric hypertrophy of septum;Dyspnea, angina, syncope or sudden death
**tx: **NO sports;
(Alcohol injection to infarct part of septum if have subaortic obstruction)
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
which condition?
epi:2.5% of cardiomyopathy cases, usually in older adults
features:Abnormal protein deposition; Congo red stain positive
clinical features:Multiorgan or limited to heart
notable tx: transplantation
amyloid
which condition?
epidemiology:10 x more common in African- Americans
**features: **Noncaseating granulomas; commonly involves base of heart and conduction system
**clinical features: **Multiorgan inflammatory disease;
Syncope or sudden death due to arrhythmias
**notable tx: **Steroids
sarcoidosis
epi: Not common;
Not rare
features:Dilated left ventricle with no cause evident
clinical features: Nonspecific signs and symptoms of heart failure;
**Diagnosis of exclusion **
notable tx: Heart failure drugs; Transplantation
idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: Calcific aortic stenosis presents with ______, _______ or ________ and _________after the development of symptoms greatly improves survival.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 1: Calcific aortic stenosis presents with angina, syncope or dyspnea and valve replacement after the development of symptoms greatly improves survival.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2: ______reduction of forward stroke volume from the normal of 100 ml to 75 ml is associated with clinical manifestations of heart failure.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 2: 25% reduction of forward stroke volume from the normal of 100 ml to 75 ml is associated with clinical manifestations of heart failure.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 3: ___________ is the most common valve disease in the US and usually benign.
IMPORTANT CONCEPT 3: Mitral valve prolapse is the most common valve disease in the US and usually benign.