CVS 3,4,8,9,10,12,14 Flashcards
What are the 7 phases of the cardiac cycle?
- Atrial contraction
- Isovolumetric contraction
- Rapid ejection
- Reduced ejection
- Isovolumetric relaxation
- Rapid filling
- Reduced filling
In which side of the heart are valve pathologies most common and why?
Left side
Higher pressure
Give 3 causes of Aortic valve stenosis.
- Degeneration (old age-senile calcification/fibrosis)
- Congenital eg bicuspid aortic valve
- Chronic rheumatic fever- inflammation
What happens as a result of aortic valve stenosis?
- Less blood getting through
- Increased left ventricular pressure
- LV hypertrophy
- Left sided heart failure
- Syncope (fainting)
- Angina (not enough blood to coronary arteries)
- Increased left ventricular pressure
Give 2 causes of aortic valve regurgitation.
- Valve damage- endocarditis
- Aortic root dilation
What happens as a result of aortic valve regurgitation?
Blood flows back into LV during diastole- RBCs lyse (Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia)
Increase Stroke Volume
Increased systolic pressure
- Bounding pulse
- Heading bobbing
- Quinke’s sign- nail beds flush w./ heart beat
LV hypertrophy
Name some causes of mitral valve regurgitation.
- Myxomatous degeneration (CT disorder)
- Weak chordae tendinae
- Weak papillary muscle
- Causing prolapse
- Damge to papillary muscles after heart attack
- Left sided heart failure- LV dilation
- Rheumatic fever
What causes mitral valve stenosis in 99.9% of cases?
Rheumatic fever
Commissural fusion of valve leaflets
What happens as a result of mitral valve stenosis?
- Increase LA pressure
- Pulmonary oedema
- Difficulty breathing
- Pulmonary hypertension
- RV hypertrophy
- LA dilation
- Artial fibrillation
- Thrombus
- Oesaophagus compression
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
- Artial fibrillation
- Pulmonary oedema
Complete the equations:
CO= SV x …..
…..= EDV - ESV
CO= SV x HR
SV = EDV - ESV
What is the typical stroke volume of a 70kg man?
70ml (=about 67% of normal EDV)
What does the ventricular compliance curve show?
Relationship between how much ventricles fill and LV pressure
What is the Frank-Starling law of the heart?
More the heart fills, harder it contracts
What are cardiac muscle cells increasingly sensitive to as the muscles are stretched?
Ca2+ ions
What type of stimulation affects the contractility of the heart?
Sympathetic/adrenaline
What is aortic impedence?
LV afterload
Why is the jugular venous pulse used clinically?
Direct colum of blood into right atrium
What conditions will increase the Jugular venous pulse?
- Right side of heart- not pumping blood out properly
- Vol overload with IV infusion
- Something impairing heart filling eg stap wound
Label the follwing waves and describe what produces them:
- A
- C
- X-descent
- V
- Dicrotic notch
- Y-descent
- A: Atrial systole
- C: Closing mitral valve
- X-descent: Atrial pressure initially decreases
- V: Atrial pressure rising- venous return from lungs
- Dicrotic notch: Aortic valve closing
- Y-descent: Opening of mitral valve- ventricular filling
In what unit is BP measured?
mmHg (milimetres of mercury)
What is the normal/ideal BP?
90/60 mmHg and 120/80mmHg
What are the values of Blood pressure for:
- Stage 1 hypertension
- Stage 2 hypertension
- Severe hypertension