Cardiopulm Flashcards
Arrhythmias
Sudden cardiac death
Hypertensive heart disease
Left sided (systemic) Car pulmonale (right sided or pulmonary)
Valvular heart disease
Calcific valvular degeneration
- calcific aortic stenosis
- calcific stenosis of bicuspid aortic valve
- mitral annular calcification
Mitral valve prolapse
Rheumatic heart disease
Infective endocarditis
Non-infected endocarditis
- nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
- lupus
- carcinoid heart disease
- complications of prosthetic valves
Cardiomyopathies
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Arrhythmoegnic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Myocarditis
Other causes of myocardial disease
Pericardial disease
Pericardial effusion and hemopericardium
Pericarditis
-acute pericarditis
Heart disease associated with rheumatologist
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Tumors fo the heart
Primary cardiac tumors
Cardiac effects of noncardiac neoplasms
Cardiac transplantation
Discuss major complications
Arrhythmia: What is the most common cause of rhythmDOs read pg 550
Ischemic injury
Sick sinus syndrome
SA node damaged->bradycardia
Atrial fibrillation
Myocytes depolarize independently and sporadically (atrial dilation) with variable transmission thru the AV node-> irregular HR=atrial fib
Heart block
Dysfunctional AV node
First degree block
Prolonged PR interval
Second degree block
Intermittent transmission
Third degree block
Complete failure
Abnormalities in gap junction structure or spatial relationship
Ischemic heart disease , dilated cardiomyopathies, myocytes hypertrophy, inflammation (myocarditis or sarcoidosis), amyloid…
Hereditary conditions arrhythmias
AD
Primary electrical DO, Dx thre genetic testing
Chennelopathies: mutations in genes that are required for NL ion channel function
-can be associated with skeletal muscle DOs and diabetes also; most common isolated to heart
Most common inherited arrhythmogenic disease
Long QT syndrome
Genes of long QT syndrome
KCNQ1 (K channel LOF)
, KCNH2 (K channel LOF)
SCN5A (Na channel LOF)
CAV2 (caveolin Na current GOF)
Short QT syndrome genes
KCNQ1 (K channel GOF)
KCNH2 (K channel GOF)
Brigade syndrome genes
SCN5A (Na channel)
CACNB2b (Ca channel LOF)
SCN1b (Na channel LOF)*
cPVT syndrome
RYR2 (diastolic Ca release )
CASQ2 (diastolic Ca release LOF)
Sudden cardiac death from cardiac cause
Unexpected death from cardiac cause, either
- without symptoms or
- within 1-24 hours of symptom onset
- 80-90% of successively resuscitated pts show no lab or ECG changes
Coronary artery disease precipitates sudden cardiac death
Usually >75% stenosis or one or more of the 3 main coronary arteries
Unfortunately SCD often the first manifestation of IHD
Healed remote MIs seen in about 40$
Other causes of sudden cardiac death
Cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, congenital abnormalities of the conduction system, myocardial hypertrophy
SCD due to a fatal arrhythmia
Most often arising from ischemia induced myocardial irritability
Hypertensive heart disease: left sided hypertensive disease
Left sided hypertensive disease
- pressure overload results in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)
- the LV wall is CONCENTRICALLY thickened >1.5 cck, weight >500 gym
Diastolic dysfunction can result in left atrial enlargement
-can lead to atrial fib
Hypertensive left sided heart disease may lead to __- and is a risk factor for ___
CHF
SCD
Hypertensive heart disease: right sided hypertensive
Isolated right sided hypertensive heart disease arises in the setting of pulmonary hypertension
Acute car pulmonale may arise from a large pulmonary embolus
-marked dilation of RV
Most common cause of pulmonary hypertension is
Left sided heart disease
Left sided hypertensive heart disease
Systemic
Concentric
LVH
Decrease lumen
Disease of the pulmonary parenchyma that predispose to Cor Pulmonale
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Diffuse pulmonary interstitial fibrosis
Pneumoconioses
Cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis
Diseases of pulmonary vessels that predispose to Cor pulmonale
Recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism
Primary pulmonary HTN
Extensive pulmonary arteritis
Drug toxin or radiation induced vascular obstruction
Extensive pulmonary tumor microembolism
Disorders affecting chest movement predisposing Cor pulmonale
Kyphoscoliosis
Marked obesity (sleep apnea, pickwickian syndrome)
Neuromuscular diseases
Disorders including pulmonary arterial constriction predisposing to Cor pulmonale
Metabolic acidosis
Hypoxemia
Chronic altitude sickness
Obstruction of major airways
Valvular heart disease
Valve disease may present with stenosis and/or insuffiency
Stenosis
Valve doesn’t open completely, occurs chronically
- impedes forward flow
- chronic stenosis may cause pressure overload hypertrophy->CHF
Insuffiency
Valve doesn’t close completely, may occur acutely or chronically
- allows reversed flow
- chronic insuffiency may cause volume overload hypertrophy->CHF
Mitral valve stenosis cause
Postinflammatory scarring (rheumatic heart disease)
Mitral regurgitation cause
Abnormalities of leaflets and commissures
Abnormalities of tensor apparatus
Abnormalities of left ventricle and/or annulus
Abnormalities of leaflets and commissures
Postinflammatory scarring
Infective endocarditis
Mitral valve prolapse
Drugs
Aortic stenosis cause
Postinflammatory scarring (rheumatic heart disease)
Senile calcific aortic stenosis
Calcification of congenitally deformed valve
Aortic regurgitation cause
Postinflammatory scarring (rheumatic heart disease)
Degenerative aortic dilation *syphilic aortitis Ankylosis spondylitis Rheumatoid arthritis *marfans
Most common valve abnormality
Calcific aortic stenosis
Who gets calcific valvular degeneration
60-80 increases with age
Wear a tear associated with chronic HTN, hyperlipidemia, inflammation
In calcific valvular degeneration, ___ valves show na accelerated course
Bicuspid
Describe valves in calcific aortic stenosis
Osteoblasts like cells, which deposit an osteodystrophy like substance->ossified
Mounded calcification in cusps prevent complete opening of the valve
Symptoms of calcific valvular degeneration
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) develops from increased pressure
Most patients with aortic stenosis will die 5 years after developing angina, within 3 years of developing syncope and within 2 years of CHF onset
Mitral annular calcification
Calcific deposits in the fibrous annulus
Normally does not affect valve function
Nodules may become sites for thrombus formation or infective endocarditis
Who gets mitral annular calcification
Females over 60 with mitral valve prolapse
Bicuspid valve
Prone to calcification. Patients can remain relatively asymptomatic until the stenosis reaches a critical point when congestive heart failure rapidly ensues. The dense white nodules of calcification are present on both valve surfaces
Aortic stenosis calcification
An aortic valve need not be bicuspid to calcify. Sometimes older adults , a normal aortic valve (three cusps) will undergo calcification, a so called “senile calcific aortic stenosis” nodules of calcification are seen on the cusps
Mitral valve prolapse
Valve leaflets prolapse back into LA during systole
Affects 2-3% of adults, mainly female and incidental (mid systolic click**)
Marian syndrome
Loss of connective tissue support in the mitral valve leaflets makes them soft and billowy, creating a so called floppy valve
Myxomatosis degeneration
MVP leaflets become thickened and rubbery due to proteoglycan deposits (myxomatosis degeneration) and elastic fiber disruption
Why else may MVP occur
Complication of other causes of regurgitation (dilated hypertrophy)
Symptoms MVP
Most asymptomatic , a minority may experience:
Pain mimicking angina
Dyspnea
Serious (but rare) complications may include
- infective endocarditis
- mitral insuffiency
- thromboembolism
- arrhythmias
Rheumatic fever
Multisystem inflammatory disorder following pharyngeal infection with group A streptococcus
Incidence of rheumatic fever has _ with more rapid diagnosis and treatment of strep infections
Decrease
Acute rheumatic fever
May include a carditis component, and over time may evolve to chronic rheumatic heart disease
Occurs 10 days to 6 weeks after a group a strep infection
-anti-streptomycin O and anti-DNase B
Pathogenesis rheumatic fever
Immune response to streptococcal M proteins cross reacts with cardiac (among other) self -antigen
RF can include:
Pancarditis, migratory polyarthritis (large jts), subcutaneous nodules, rash (erythema marginatum)
Sydenham chorea: neurologic disorder with involuntary rapid, purposeless movements
Cardiac features of acute RF
Pancarditis, featuring Aschoff bodies
Inflammation and fibrinoid necrosis of endocardium and left sided valves, with verrucae (vegetations)
Repeated streptococcal infections will cause these features to recur
Chronic RHD
Mitral leaflet thickening, fusion and shortening of commissures, fusion and thickening of tendinous cords, resultingin mitral
Chronic RF and RHF
LA enlargement->atrial fib (arrhythmias), thromboembolic events
Pulmonary congestion/RHF
Infective endocarditis
Surgical repair/prosthetic valve replacement
Infective endocarditis
An infection of valves and endocardium, characterized by vegetation’s consisting of microbes and debris, associated with underlying tissue destruction
Acute infective endocarditis
Rapidly progressing, destructive infection of a previously normal valve
Requires surgery in addition to antibiotics
Subacute infective endocarditis
Slower progressing infection of a previously deformed valve (such as in chronic RHD)
-can often be cured with antibiotics alone
Infective endocarditis predisposing conditions
Valvular abnormalities
-HRD, prosthetic valves, MV prolapse, calcific stenosis, bicuspid AV
Bacteremia
- another site of infection, dental work/surgery
- contaminated needle
- compromised epithelium
Classic feature of infective endocarditis
Friable, bulky, destructive valvular vegetation’s
-left sided valves are more commonly affected
—right sided valves often involved in IV drug abusers
-friability leads to septic emboli (PE if right side valve)
-vegetation’s are mixtures of fibrin, inflammatory cells, and organisms
—subacute vegetation’s may have a granulation tissue component
Nonspecific symptoms of infective endocarditis
Fever, weight loss, fatigue
__ are usually present with left sided lesions
Murmurs
Organismsof infective endocarditis
S. Viridans (valve abnormalities)
S aureus (normal valves, abnormal valves, IV drug abusers)
S epidermis (prosthetic valves)
HACEK (haemophilus, actinobacillus, cardiobacterium, eikenella, kingella
Acute bacterial endocarditis
<6 weeks with 50% mortality
Highly virulent organisms
Normal valves
Necrotizing, ulcerative destructive lesions
Micro: fibrin, inflammatory cells and organisms
Rapid onset of symptoms
Difficult to cure: surgery
Aortic and mitral valves
Right heart valves if IV drug user
Ring abscess: vegetation erode into underlying myocardium
Emboli->septic infarcts or mycotic aneurysm
Subacute infective endocarditis
> 6 weeks, most survive with treatment
Less virulent organisms; insidious
Abnormal valves
Less destructive lesions
Micro: granulation tissue, fibrosis, calcification, chronic inflammatory cells
Vague flu like symptoms
Antibiotics
Pathological criteria for diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis
Microorganisms, demonstrated by culture or histologic examination, in a vegetation, embolus from a vegetation or intracardiac abscess
Histologic confirmation of active endocarditis in vegetation or intracardiac abscess
Clinical criteria for endocarditis
Blood culture positive for a characteristic organism or persistently positive for an unusual organism
Echocaridiographic identification of a valve related or implant related mass or abscess, or partial separation of artificial valve
New valvular regurgitation
Minor clinical features infective endocarditis
Subungual/splinter hemorrhages
Jane way lesions
Oiler nodes, Roth spots
Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
Small, sterile thrombi on cardiac valve leaflets, along the line of closure
-loosely attached, not invasive , do not illicit an inflammatory reaction
May be a source of emboli
Associated with malignancies (espicially mucinous adenocarcinomas), sepsis, or catheter induced endocardial trauma
Carcinoid heart syndrome
A systemic disorder marked by flushing, diarrhea, dermatitis, and bronchoconstriction; bioactive compounds such as serotonin released by carcinoid tumors
In carcinoid syndrome, what correlates with severely of cardiac lesions
Plasma levels of serotonin and urinary excretion of the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid correlate with the severity of the cardiac lesions
Carcinoid heart disease
50% of patients with systemic sx dev cardiac manifestations
-liver normally catabolizes inculcating mediators before they can affect the heart; this usually massive metastatic hepatic burden
-right endocardium and valves*; left side protected due to pulmonary vascular bed degradation of mediators
Carcinoid heart disease similar lesions
As patients taking fenfluramine (appetite suppressant) or ergot alkaloids (migraine); affect systemic serotonin metabolism
Complications of cardiac valve prostheses
Thrombosis/thromboembolism
Anticoagulant-related hemorrhage
Prosthetic valve endocarditis
- wear, fracture, poppet failure in ball valves, cuspal tear, calcification
- other forms of dysfunction
Inadequate healing (paravalvular leak), exuberant healing (obstruction), hemolysis
Cardiomyopathies
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Amyloid
Dilated functional pattern
Left ventricular ejection fracture, mechanism of heart failure, causes of phenotype, indirect myocardial dysfunction (mimicking cardiomyopathy)
,40%
Impairment of contractility (systolic dysfunction)
Genetic, alcohol, peripartum, myocarditis, hemochromatosis, chronic anemia, doxorubicin (adriamycin) toxicity; sarcoidosis; idiopathic
Ischemic heart disease; valvular heart disease; hypertensive heart disease; congenital heart disease
Hypertrophic functional
Left ventricular ejection fraction, mechanism of heart failure, causes of phenotype, indirect myocardial dysfunction (mimicking cardiomyopathy0
50-80%
Impairment of compliance (diastolic dysfunction)
Genetic; friedreich ataxia; storage disease; infants of diabetic mother
Hypertensive heart disease; infants of diabetic mother
Hypertensive heart disease; aortic stenosis
Restrictive functional pattern
Left ventricular ejection fraction, mechanism of heart failure
Causes of phenotype
Indirect myocardial dysfunction (mimicking cardiomyopathy0
45-90%
Impairment of compliance (diastolic dysfunction)
Amyloidosis; radiation-induced fibrosis;idiopathic
Pericardial constriction
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Progressive cardiac dilation and systolic dysfunction, usually with dilated hypertrophy
Pathogenesis dilated cardiomyopathy
Thought to be familial in 30-50% of cases (TTN mutations may account for 20% of all cases); usually AD
Alcohol
Myocarditis
Cardiotoxic drugs
Cardiotoxic drugs associated with dilated cardiomyopathy
Doxorubicin, cobalt, IRON overload,
Iron overload dilated cardiomyopathy
From hereditary hemochromatosis (HFE mutation) or multiple transfusions
Morphology of dilated cardiomyopathy
Dilation of all chambers
Mural thrombi are common
Functional regurgitation of valves
Presentation dilated cardiomyopathy
Usually manifests between age 20-50
Progressive CHF ->dyspnea , exertional fatigue, decrease EF (<25% end stage)
- arrhythmias
- embolism
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Broken heart syndrome
Excess catecholamines following extreme emotional or psychological stress
Who gets takotsubo cardiomyopathy
> 90% women age 58-75
Symptoms takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Similar to acute MI
Morph takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Apical ballooning of the left ventricle with abnormal wall motion and contractile dysfunction
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 1
100% genetic causes
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy phenotype—>leads to heart failure, sudden death, atrial fibrillation, stroke
Hypertrophy, marked
Asymmetrical septal hypertrophy
Myofibroblasts disarray
Fibrosis, interstitial and replacement
LV outflow tract plaque
Thickened septal vessel
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Right ventricular failure and arrhythmias
Familial, AD
Naxos syndrome
Right ventricular failure and arrhythmias
Myocardium of the right vertncuarl wall replaced by adipose and fibrosis
Causes ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation->sudden death
Familial, autosomal dominant ARVC
Defective cell adhesion proteins in the desmosomes that link adjacent cardiac myocyte
Naxos syndrome
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with hyperkeratosis of plantar palmar skin surfaces
-mutations int he gene encoding the desmoosme-associated protein plakoglobin
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
A genetic disorder leading to myocardial hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction leading to reduced stroke volume and often ventricular outflow obstruction
Mutations of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Numerous..involving sarcomeric proteins
-most commonly B-myosin heavy chain
Morphology hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Massive myocardial hypertrophy, often with marked septal hypertrophy
Microscopically, myocyte disarray
Consequences of extensive hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Foci of MI may occur
Left atrial dilation and mural thrombus
Dismissed cardiac output and increased pulmonary congestion leads to exertional dyspnea
Arrhythmias
Sudden death
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Decreased ventricular compliance (increased stiffness), leading to diastolic dysfunction (impaired filling), while systolic function of the LV remains normal
May be secondary to deposition of material with int he wall (amyloid). Or increased fibrosis (radiation)
Heart size and restrictive cardiomyopathy
Ventricles are usually of normal size, but both atria can be enlarged
Amyloid with restrictive cardiomyopathy
Extracellular deposition of proteins which form an insoluble B pleated sheet
May be systemic (myeloma) or restricted to the heart (usually transthyretin)
- certain mutated versions of transthyretin are more amyloidogenic
- amyloid can involve different parts of the heart, but when deposits are in the interstitiium of the myocardium, a restrictive cardiomyopathy results
Amyloid Congo red stain
Apple green birefringence
Myocarditis
Inflammation of the myocardium , most commonly due to a virus in the US
What viruses cause myocarditis
Coxsackie A and B
Infectious causes of myocarditis
Tyrpanosome cruzi (chagas)
Bacteria and fungi
Trypanosome cruzi (chagas) and myocarditis
10% die during acute attack
May progress to cardiac insuffiency in 10-20 years
Parasitization of scattered myofibroblasts; mixed inflammatory cell infiltrate (PMB, lymph’s, macrophages, occ eosinophils)
Noninfectious causes of myocarditis
Immune mediated reactions including RF, DLE, drug hypersensitivity
See table 12-13 p 571
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Major causes of myocarditis
Infections
Immune mediated reactions
Unknown-sarcoidosis, giant cell myocarditis
Pericardial disease: slow accumulation
Normal<50 mL clear, straw colored fluid
Slow accumulation, <500 mL asymptomatic if slow enough
-globular enlargement of heart shadow on CXR
Acute pericardial disease
200-300 mL rapid accumulation
—>cardiac tamponade
Normal<50
Fibrinous and serofibrinous pericardial disease most common
-AMI, POSTINFARCTION(dressers),Uremia, chest irradiation, RF, SLE, trauma
Fibrinous
Dry, finely granular
Serofibrinous
Yellow-brown, turbid fliud with WBC, RBC, and fibrin
Symptoms pericardial disease
Pain (sharp, pleuritic and position dependent), fever, +/- CHF
LOUD PERICARDIAL FRICTION RUB MOST STRIKING FEATURE
Primary cardiac tumors: top 5
All benign
-myxomatosis, fibroma, lipomas, papillary fibroelastomas, rhabdomyomas, and angiosarcomas
Metastatic tumors to heart occur in _% of people dying from cancer
5
My MOA
Most common primary, pedunculated (sessile), usually in region of fossa ovalis
Genetics myxoma
Familial syndromes associated with myxoma have activating mutations in GNAS1, encoding a subunit of G protein a(in association with MCCUNE-ALBRIGHT syndrome) or null mutations in PPKAR1A, encoding a regulatory subunit of a cyclic AMP dependent protein kinase (carney complex)
Morphology myxoma
Globular hard mass, mottled with hemorrhage to soft, translucent, papillary or villous with a gelatinous appearance