Heart Flashcards
Left circumflex artery supplies
The posterior surface of the left ventricle
Branches of the right coronary artery
Right marginal and posterior interventricular artery (also small branches to SA node and AV node)
Right marginal artery supplies
Right ventricle
The most important source of blood to interventricular septum
Anterior interventricular artery
What artery supplies the apex of the heart
Anterior interventricular descending
Which valves are open during ventricular systole
Aortic and pulmonary
Left coronary artery supplies
Anterior interventricular arty and left circumflex
Opening in interatrial septum which exists in fetus
Foramen ovale
Shunts that divert blood away from fetal lungs
Foramen ovale and ductus arteriosus
Coronary sinus drains into
Right atrium
Coronary sinus receives blood from
Great, middle, and small cardiac veins, oblique vein of the left atrium, left posterior ventricular vein.
An auscultation of the aortic valve can be heard where
2nd right intercostal space, just lateral to stern angle
Pulmonary valves can be auscultated where
2nd left intercostal space, lateral to sternal angle
Tricuspid valve can be auscultated where
5th left intercostal space
The mitral valve can be auscultated where
Left 5th intercostal space, below nipple
