Exam 3: The Heart Flashcards
What is the first organ system to develop in utero?
cardiovascular system
What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.? Give some statistics.
Heart Disease
- 1 in every 4 deaths = ~ 1 death per minute
- 1/3 of all “premature” deaths (younger than 75)
How many people each year in the U.S. have CHF? How many are hospitalized? How many die from it?
5 million have CHF
1 million are hospitalized with CHF
300,000 die from CHF
What are the six categories for the pathophysiological mechanisms ass. with “heart disease”?
- Pump Failure (“contractile failure” or “systolic dysfunction”)
- Obstructed Flow
- Regurgitant Flow
- Shunted Flow
- Disordered Cardiac Conduction
- Rupture of the Heart Wall or Major Vessel
What is the most common mechanism of heart failure?
Pump failure (contractile failure or systolic dysfunction)–> they myocytes contract too weakly and chambers are unable to completely empty
What is the results of the Pump failure mechanism for heart disease?
reduced Stroke Vol. and reduced Cardiac Output
What may cause the Obstructed Flow mechanism for heart disease? Why is this bad?
- cardiac valve stenosis
- systemic HTN
heart must pump harder to overcome it, therefore works harder
What mechanism of cause is it when the cardiac valves do not seal properly? Why is this an issue?
Regurgitant Flow –> allows blood to travel against direction of flow and requires heart to pump same unit of blood, increasing workload on heart
What is the MC reason for Regurgitant Flow?
cardiac valvular disease
What heart failure mechanism is it when blood is inappropriately diverted from one region of the heart to another? What does this result in?
Shunted Flow–> results in overloading cardiac tissue by increasing pressure/blood volume w/in that region receiving the shunted blood
Disordered Cardiac Conduction mechanism for heart failure may causes what?
cardiac arrythmias–> which may cause heart palpitations, or produce lethal sudden cardiac death if arrhythmia is prolonged/sustained
What may cause the Rupture of the Heart Wall or Major Vessel mechanisms for heart failure?
severe elevations in cardiac pressure or external trauma —> result in a “loss of circulatory continuity” and heart quickly fails
When does Heart Failure (CHF) occur?
when cardiac dysfunction causes insufficient cardiac output and the heart fails to meet body’s metabolic requirementes
What form of heart failure initially involves sufficient cardiac output, but elevated filling pressures are required to achieve this level of CO?
compensated heart failure
What form of heart failure occurs when the heart failure occurs due to an increased tissue demand? How common is this?
High-output heart failure
small minority of heart failure cases and is secondary to conditions
What conditions may High-output heart failure be secondary to?
- Hyperthyroidism
- severe anemia
- large AV fistula
- Paget Disease (occasionally)
What three things may heart failure occur due to?
- Systolic dysfunction
- Diastolic dysfunction
- Valvular dysfunction
What cause of heart failure is due to the result of inadequate myocardial contraction? What is this form frequently a result of?
Systolic dysfunction
HTN or CAD (an ischemia heart disease)
What is the reduced cardiac output from systolic dysfunction sometimes referred to as?
“forward failure”
What cause of heart failure is due to the results of inadequate cardiac relaxation and inadequate filling of cardiac chambers?
Diastolic dysfunction
What are common causes of Diastolic dysfunction?
- myocardial fibrosis
- cardiac amyloidosis
- advanced concentric cardiac hypertrophy
- constrictive pericarditis
- secondary to pericardial tamponade
What cause of heart failure occurs following any valvular injury? What are causes of this?
Valvular Dysfunction Causes: - age-related calcific stensosi - infectious endocarditis - Libman-Sacks endocarditis from Lupus - Rheumatic Fever
What will “forward failure” due to systolic dysfunction result in?
an increase in “end-diastolic” volume and pressure and elevated venous blood volume and pressure—-> known as “backward failure”
Our cardiovascular system will attempt to adapt during early stages of heart failure from reduced myocardial contractility (systolic dysfunction). What are the 3 mechanisms of Compensated Heart Failure?
- Frank-Starling Mechanism
- Neurohumoral Activation
- Myocardial Structural Changes
What is it known as when we are able to maintain adequate cardiac output and tissue perfusion during hear failure?
compensated heart failure (3 mechanisms of it)
What is the Frank-Starling Mechanism of Compensated Heart Failure?
when increased end-diastolic volumes dilate the heart by stretching ind. myocystes—> causes increased systolic contraction and increased CO
What is the Neurohumoral Activation mechanism of Compensated Heart Failure?
ANS signals release of NE–> which increases HR and cardiac contractility to increase CO
What is the Myocardial Structural Changes mechanisms for Compensated Heart Failure?
overloading the cardiac myocytes stimulates increased sarcomere growth–> increasing thickness of myocytes –> causing concentric hypertrophy (primarily isolated to LV wall)
When pressure is overloading the heart, what type of cardiac hypertrophy is it most likely to cause? In what situations will this occur?
concentric cardiac hypertrophy
in times of prolonged systemic HTN or valvular stenosis
What is concentric cardiac hypertrophy?
= a pathological cardiac adaptation ass. with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality
sarcomeres are added “parallel to long axis of myocyte” which thickens cardiac muscle cells and grows INWARD to narrow iintraventricular space
What type of cardiac hypertrophy occurs in times of overloading the heart and is a NORMAL physiological response to high levels of endurance exercise?
eccentric cardiac hypertrophy
causes sarcomeres to be added “in series” with existing sarcomeres–> lengthening cardiac muscle cells–> producing a proportional increase in size of heart–> and an increase in intraventricular volume
T/F. Eccentric Cardiac Hypertrophy causes intraventricular obstruction, just like concentric cardiac hypertrophy.
False- Eccentric Cardiac hypertrophy does NOT cause intraventricular obstruction
What is Eccentric cardiac hypertrophy sometimes referred to as? What are some benefits of it?
“athlete’s heart” or “physiological hypertrophy”
- increase cardiac efficiency
- bradycardia
- increase in myocardial capillary density
What do the benifits of compensated heart failure come as a cost to?
at a cost of increased oxygen consumption –> and overtime the three mechanisms of compensated heart failure begin to fail
What is it called when the mechanisms of compensated heart failure begin fail and the failing heart no longer can perfuse the body’s tissues?
Decompensated heart failure (cardiac decompensation)
What is the most common form of heart failure?
Left-Sided Heart failure
What is Left-Sided Heart Failure most likely to arise from?
- ischemic heart disease (CAD)
- systemic HTN
- aortic or mitral valve disease
- various cardiomyopathies
What kind of heart failure involves inadequate tissue perfusion and elevated “back-pressure” w/in the pulmonary circulation?
Left-sided heart failure
What will the “backward failure” of Left-sided heart failure produce?
- increased pressure w/in pulmonary veins
- pulmonary edema
- pleural effusion
What are some clinical features of Left-sided Heart failure?
- exertional dyspnea
- dyspnea at rest or while sleeping
- orthopnea
- chronic coughing due to pulmonary edema or irritation