CVS Session 11 Flashcards
What is high output heart failure?
When the output remains the same but demand increases
Give examples of some causes of heart failure.
IHD Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Hypertension Valvular disease Dilated cardiomyopathy Arrhythmias Amyloidosis Pericardial disease
What is the primary cause of systolic heart failure?
IHD
What can cause high output heart failure?
A-V fistula
What can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?
Alcohol/drugs/poisoning
Idiopathic
Pregnancy
Viral/bacterial/mycobacteria
What kind of care is often needed with class IV heart failure?
Palliative
Describe Class I heart failure.
Asymptomatic
What class of heart failure is a patient who describes having symptoms of breathlessness on ordinary physical activity but is asymptomatic at rest?
II
How do patients with Class III heart failure present?
Marked limitation of physical activity
Asymptomatic at rest
Which class of heart failure do patients who are unable to carry out physical activity w/out symptoms belong?
IV
Which class of heart failure patients may be symptomatic at rest?
IV
What does cardiac output depend on?
HR
Venous capacity
Aortic and peripheral impedance
Myocardial contractility
What is left ventricular preload?
Venous capacity
What is after load?
Pressure needed to overcome aortic and peripheral impedance
What is plotted on each axis to give a graph of Starling’s law of the heart?
X = cardiac filling/end diastolic volume Y = cardiac output
What does Starling’s law of the heart state?
Force developed in a muscle fibre depends on the degree to which the fibre is stretched
What is the average cardiac output for an adult?
5 litres per minute
What is the average stroke volume for an adult?
75 ml per beat
What is the average LV end systolic volume?
75 ml
What is the average LV end diastolic volume?
150 ml
In what range does a healthy ejection fraction lie?
> 50%
Who much does the average adult heart weigh?
330 g
Describe the fine line in treatment for gross heart failure.
Over treat with too many diuretics
Undertreat so fluid levels are too high –> congestive symptoms
What can decrease cardiac output it becomes ineffective in a normal heart?
Dehydration
What is systolic heart failure?
Inability to effectively pump blood out of the heart
How does the remodelling of the heart in acute infarction and diastolic/systolic heart failure differ?
Acute - one sided due to injury
Diastolic/systolic - same both sides
What happens to the left ventricular capacity in systolic dysfunction?
Increases due to thinning of myocardial wall
What causes mitral regurgitation in systolic dysfunction?
Valve leaflets are pulled apart due to cardiac dilation
What changes to the heart are seen in diastolic dysfunction?
Hypertrophy
What are the structural changes to the heart in heart failure?
Loss of muscle
Uncoordinated contraction
Myocardial fibre orientation slips
What happens to the collagen levels in the ECM of cardiac myocytes in heart failure?
Increase
III > I
What is heart failure?
Clinical syndrome caused by an abnormality of the heart which means cardiac output does not meet the demand of metabolising tissues
What happens to myocytes in systolic dysfunction?
Lysis Vacuolation Hypertrophy SR dysfunction Changes the calcium availability Changes to receptor regulation
What mediates the sympathetic nervous system?
Baroreceptors
What effects does activation of the sympathetic nervous system have?
Increase cardiac contractility
Arterial and venous vasoconstriction
Tachycardia
What long-term damaging effects does activation of the sympathetic nervous system have?
Down regulation of beta-adrenoceptors Cardiac hypertrophy Myocyte apoptosis and necrosis via alpha-receptor stimulation Increase RAAS Reduce HR variability
Name an anti-diuretic hormone.
Vasopressin