Heart Flashcards
Pericardium layers?
- Visceral Serous Pericardium
- Parietal Serous Pericardium
- Fibrous Pericardium
Fibrous Pericardium?
- entirely parietal
- outside layer of heart, no contact with heart
- fused with parietal serous
- fused with central tendon
- fused with great vessels
- attaches to sternum by sternal pericardial ligaments
- bare area (not covered): inferior vena cava
Serous Pericardium?
- Parietal
- fused with Fibrous layer - Visceral
- adherent to cardiac muscle
- epicardium
Clinical application of pericardium?
- Pericarditis
- closed sac where fluid can accumulate between two serous layers (pericardial effusion)
- substernal chest pain
- can occur due to viral infections, kidney failure, CHF, cancer
- Fibrous can dilate with fluid
Innervation to pericardium?
- Phrenic nerve passes over and supplies Fibrous and Parietal serous pericardium
- visceral serous has no sensory, pain fibers
Blood supply to pericardium?
Internal thoracic:
- pericardiophrenic
- coronary
Acute vs chronic pericarditis?
Acute:
- outer fibrous layer does not dilate
- fluid accumulates and pushes on heart and will have decreased blood volume pushed out
Chronic:
-fibrous layer will distend gradually and become larger
Location of heart?
middle mediastinum
Layers of heart?
- Endocardium
- simple squamous endothelium inside of heart - Myocardium
- middle cardiac muscle tissue layer - Epicardium
- visceral serous pericardium
- outer most layer of heart
Apex of heart?
- part of left ventricle
- inferior portion of heart
Sternocostal surface of heart?
- posterior to sternum
- near right ventricle
Diaphragmatic surface of heart?
-inferior two ventricles
Base of heart?
both atria
coronary groove of heart?
- external indication of separation between atria and ventricles
- coronary arteries run here
Interventricular groove of heart?
divides left and right ventricles
Blood flow through heart?
- deoxygenated blood from systemic circulation enters right atrium through superior and inferior vena cava
- deoxygenated blood from heart enters from Coronary sinus - blood goes through Atrioventricular tricuspid valve to right ventricle
- blood pumped through pulmonary valve (semilunar) through pulmonary trunk and artery to lungs
- blood is oxygenated and sent back through pulmonary veins
- oxygenated blood enters left atrium
- blood goes through mitral or bicuspid valve to left ventricle
- pumped through Aortic valve (semilunar)
- through Aorta and to systemic circulation
- first branches off Aorta are left and right coronary arteries
why is the right ventricle muscle wall smaller than left?
- lungs are low pressure system
- located next to heart
- left has to pump to whole body
Left atrium hypertrophy clinical significance?
- Mitral valve disease
- could be caused by Rheumatic fever
- left atrium pushes on esophagus
- give patient radio liquid to see heart chambers
- see if left atrium dents esophagus
Where does right atrium receive blood?
- superior and inferior vena cava from systemic circulation
- coronary sinus from heart circulation
Pectinate muscles?
- rough muscles in anterior part of right atrium
- smooth in posterior right atrium
- separated by Crista terminalis
Right auricle function?
- collects deoxygenated blood
- extra space for blood to flow if atrium fills
Fossa ovalis? clinical significance?
- thin fibrous band closes over at birth
- Foramen ovale in embryo connects right and left atrium
clinical:
- periosteal embolism
- foramen ovale remains open after birth
- if blood clot travels to lower extremities, it can now travel to brain or kidneys
Location of SA and AV node?
- right atrium
- SA: pacemaker
- AV: receives electrical impulse
what drains into the left atrium?
-pulmonary veins carrying oxygenated blood
left atrium
- few pectinate muscles
- very smooth
- most posterior chamber
Conus Arteriosus?
- smooth
- contains spiral valve in development
- external structure around where pulmonary trunk arises