Final Exam: Heart Flashcards
Heart overloaded by pressure
HTN heart disease
___ metabolic demands and no ___ in blood Supply causes eventual cardiac decompensation in
Increase
Increase
HTN heart disease
Systemic hypertensive heart disease
L side disease
Pulmonary hypertensive heart disease
R side disease
Types of hypertensive heart disease
Systemic
Pulmonary
Complications of systemic HTN heart disease
CHF
Arrhythmia
Stroke
Renal failure
LV hypertrophy causes
Increase in myocyte diameter and fibrosis
Types of pulmonary HTN heart disease
Acute
Chronic
Acute pulmonary HTN heart disease
Large PE (saddle embolism)
Obstructs >50% pulmonary A
Chronic pulmonary HTN heart disease
Prolonged lung pathology
Gradual Hypertrophy
Prevention of heart disease according to AHA
- Keep low BP
- Control cholesterol
- Keep low blood sugar
- Active
- Heart healthy diet
- Healthy body weight
- Don’t smoke
Systemic hypertensive heart disease can be reversible by
BP management
Pulmonary HTN heart disease due to
Lung pathology
CF, PE, pulmonary fibrosis, COPD
R sided heart failure due to something in lungs causing pulmonary HTN
Cor pulmonale
MC pulmonary HTN heart disease
Chronic
Murmur
Turbulent flow through disease valve
Thrill
Type of murmur
Turbulence that causes palpable vibration
Stenosis can be due to ___ or ___
Calcification
Fibrosis
Insufficiency of valves can be due to ___ or ___
Valvular destruction
Abnormal supportive structures
Valvular heart disease can be due to
Stenosis
Insufficiency
Murmurs
Common cause of murmur
Bicuspid aortic valve
2% of all live births
Early calcification.
MC cause of aortic valve stenosis
Calcific aortic stenosis
Late calcific aortic stenosis
LV Hypertrophy
Ca = severe stenosis
Early calcific aortic stenosis
Asymptomatic
Murmur, low CO
Calcific aortic stenosis MC in ages
70-80
Risks for calcific aortic stenosis
HTN
Infection
Inflammation
High cholesterol
___ can cause early onset (age 40) of calcific aortic stenosis
Bicuspid aortic valve
Rheumatic valvular disease causes eventual
Valve destruction
Rheumatic valvular Disease MC ages
5-15 due to pharyngitis (2-3 weeks post strep infection)
3% of untreated strep throat progresses to
Rheumatic fever
GABHS infection causes
Rheumatic valvular Disease
After strep throat exposure
Jones criteria for rheumatic fever
Joints (polyarteritis) Carditis Nodules Erythema marginatum Sydenham chorea
Erythema marginatum
Red rings on torso or limbs
Skin rash component of rheumatic fever
Migratory polyarteritis from RF MC in
Adults
Carditis from RF MC in
Children
Sydenham’s chorea observed in RF involves damage to
Corpus striatum of basal ganglia
Rheumatic mitral stenosis involves what appearance?
Fish-mouth or buttonhole
70% of cases of rheumatic valvular Disease involve
Mitral valve
25% of rheumatic valvular Disease involve
Aortic valve
What is most likely to cause valvular fusion?
Rheumatic valvular disease
T/F
Most cases of untreated strep cause rheumatic valvular disease
False
Aschoff bodies
Nodules formed with long term RVD
Scarlet fever MC in
Children
Scarlet fever caused by ___ 1-4 days after strep throat (untreated)
GABHS
Erythrogenic toxin
Toxin released in scarlet fever
Signs of scarlet fever
Pink punctuate rash
Sandpaper-like chest, neck, thighs
Circumpolar pallor
Fever
Red tongue
Infective endocarditis MC due to
Bacteria
Also can be from fungi or viral
Infective endocarditis can lead to lethal
Arrhythmia
Renal failure
Bulky and friable growths observed in infective endocarditis
Vegetations
Acute infective endocarditis
Destructive, difficult to treat
Virulent staph Aureus
Subacute infective endocarditis
Low virulence, easy to treat
Damages tissue, low virulent strep. Viridans
Infective endocarditis MC on
Left-sided valves
Aortic and mitral
Source of infection for infective endocarditis
Skin infection
Dental procedures
Surgery
Infective endocarditis ___ if untreated
Fatal
Treatment for infective endocarditis
Long term antibiotics
Valve replacement
Prosthetic cardiac valves are all prone to
Infection
20% of infective endocarditis cases
MC prosthetic cardiac valves
Mechanical
Mechanical prosthetic cardiac valves
Tilting disc
Anticoagulation
Blender effect
Bioprosthetic prosthetic cardiac valves
Porcine, bovine, human
Non anticoagulation
Ca —> stenosis
Cardiomyopathies are MC
Idiopathic
3 main categories of cardiomyopathies
Dilated
Hypertrophic
Restrictive
MC cardiomyopathy
Dilated (90%)
Dilated cardiomyopathy MC ages
20-50
Risks of dilated cardiomyopathy
Genetic Viral infections Toxins (alcohol) Hemochromatosis Low thiamine
Dilated cardiomyopathy causes
Progressive dilation of all chambers
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Systolic dysfunction
Dyspnea and fatigue
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are result of
Genetic mutations
MC beta myosin
Diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy
50% 2 year survival
Dilated cardiomyopathy mimics
CHF
Causes 1/3 of SCD among adolescent athletes
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causes
Hyper-contractile sarcomeres
- won’t relax
- massive LV Hypertrophy
- low CO
25% of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have
LV outflow obstruction
Septum thicker than outer wall observed in
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy MC after
Puberty
“Harsh” murmur, “banana-like” LV and massive Hypertrophy observed in
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Least common cardiomyopathy
Restrictive
Muscular dystrophy will causes which form of cardiomyopathy
Dilated
Binge drinking is most likely to be associated with which form of cardiomyopathy
Dilated
Stiff myocardium resulting in diastolic dysfunction is characteristic of which cardiomyopathy
Restrictive
Senile cardiac amyloidosis is MC in what population
African Americans (4X)
Restrictive cardiomyopathy can be due to what 2 things?
Senile cardiac amyloidosis
Endomyocardial fibrosis
Endomyocardial fibrosis MC in
Children in tropics
Malnutrition + helminth infection
Heart wall inflammation
Myocarditis
Myocarditis can be due to what 2 things
Viral infection (MC in US)
Non viral causes
Viral infections causing myocarditis can be due to
Coxsackievirus A and B
HIV
CMV
Flu
Non viral causes of myocarditis
SLE
Chagas
Lyme
Toxoplasmosis
Pericardial inflammation
Pericarditis
Primary pericarditis
MC viral
Bacterial
Fungal
Secondary pericarditis
MI Surgery Irradiation RF SLE Cancer
Atypical chest pain and friction rub is indicative of ____, which can be life threatening
Pericarditis
Beck’s triad
Low BP
JVD (distended neck veins)
Muffled heart sounds
Myocarditis causes cardiac tissue to
Be swollen
Pale
Flabby
Atypical chest pain
Pain that increases with pressure
Relieved when leaning forward
Less likely to refer out to other parts of body
Pericarditis can be due to
Cardiac tamponade
Constrictive pericarditis
Constrictive pericarditis sign
“Squeaky leather” friction rub
Cardiac tumors Mets to
Heart
Cardiac neoplasms are rare and ____ benign
90%
MC cancer that Mets to heart
Lung
Adult cardiac neoplasm
Myxoma (MC)
Fibroma
Lipoma
Children cardiac neoplasms
Rhabdomyoma
Associated with tuberous sclerosis
Myxoma
MC primary cardiac neoplasm in adults
90% of myxoma near
Fossa ovalis of LA
Myxoma can be ___ and damage valve
Mobile
Gelatinous appearance describes
Myxoma
Myxomas are commonly isolated and ____
Benign
Transplant rejection
Fever
T cell attack
Low CO
Possible arrhythmia
Allograft arteriopathy
Stenosis of coronary arteries
Long term limitation
Silent MI
CHF
Arrhythmia
Immunosuppressive meds for cardiac transplantation can cause
Increase in opportunistic infection
Increase in malignancy
Myxomas can secrete ___, resulting in fever
Cytokines
Cardiac transplants are used to treat
Dilated cardiomyopathy
CHF