Embryology Flashcards
forms the primordium of the heart (muscular wall), conduction system, inflow tract
LP splanchnic mesoderm
earliest sign of development of the heart
paired angioblastic cords (paired endothelial strands)
these fuse to form a single tube that folds back on itself (beginning around day 23) to become the 4 chambers of the heart
when heart begins to beat
day 22-23
forms the fibrous cardiac skeleton, valves, cardiac cushions, atrial & membranous ventricular septa, outflow tract (bulbus cordis and truncus arteriosus) chordae tendinae
neural crest
what forms the hepatic portal system
right vitelline vein
note: the left vitelline vein regresses
Where does the umbilical vein deliver oxygenated blood from the placenta early in development?
sinus venosus
umbilical veins lose their connection with the heart as the embryo develops and empty into the liver
Which umbilical vein disappears during the 7th week of gestation?
right
left umbilical vein remains to carry oxygenated blood from placenta
What connects the umbilical vein to the inferior vena cava?
ductus venosus
this helps most of the oxygenated blood to bypass the liver and pass directly to the heart
most common anomaly of IVC in the adult?
IVC is interrupted in its course and blood drains from the lower limbs, abdomen and pelvis to the heart through the azygos veins
right to left shunt caused by persistence of left anterior cardinal vein
persistent left SVC
the SVC is normall formed by the right anterior cardinal vein and right common cardinal vein
degeneration of the right anterior cardinal vein and right common cardinal vein, leaving blood to enter the SVC and then the coronary sinus via the left brachiocephalic vein
left superior vena cava
inferior part of left supracardinal vein persists
double inferior vena cava
become the internal iliac arteries and superior vesicle arteries (to urinary bladder)
proximal parts of the umbilical arteries
becomes the endocardium
endothelial tube
forms the epicardium
mesothelial cells that arise from the external surface of the sinus venosus