Heart Part 2 Flashcards
Arrhythmias:
What kind of injury is the most common cause of rhythm disorders?
Ischemic injury
Arrhythmias:
What occurs during Sick Sinus Syndrome?
SA node damaged –> BRADYCARDIA
Arrhythmias:
Condition where myocytes depolarize independently and sporadically (atrial dilation) with variable transmission thru AV node –> IRREGULAR IRREGULAR HR
atrial fibrillation
Arrhythmias:
What is a heart block?
dysfunctional AV node
Arrhythmias:
What do you see with a First degree heart block?
prolonged PR interval
Arrhythmias:
What do you see with a Second degree heart block?
INTERMITTENT transmission
Arrhythmias:
What do you see with a Third degree heart block?
COMPLETE failure
Arrhythmias:
Hereditary conditions for Arrhythmias are dominant or recessive?
most autosomal dominant
Arrhythmias:
mutations in genes that are required for normal ion channel function
- Can be assoc with skeletal muscle disorders and diabetes also; most common isolated to heart
Channelopathies
What is the most common inherited arrhythmogenic disease?
Long QT syndrome
- Function is related to K+ channel, Na+ channel, and Caveolin
What are some Inherited Arrhythmogenic Dzs?
- Long QT syndrome
- Function is related to K+ channel, Na+ channel, and Caveolin - Short QT syndrome
- Function is related to K+ channels - Brugada syndrome
- Function is related to Na+ channel and Ca+ channel - CPVT syndrome
- Function is related to diastolic Ca2+ release
• Unexpected death from cardiac cause, either:
– WITHOUT symptoms, or
– Within 1-24 HRS of symptom onset
– 80-90% of successively resuscitated pts show NO lab or ECG change
Sudden cardiac death (SCD)
• ? disease precipitates SCD in 80-90%
– Usually >?% STENOSIS or one or more of the 3 main coronary arteries
– Unfortunately, SCD often the first manifestation of ?
– Healed remote MIs seen in about 40%
• Coronary artery disease
- > 75%
- IHD
What are some other causes of Sudden cardiac death (SCD) ?
cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, congenital abnormalities of the conduction system, myocardial hypertrophy
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is due to what?
SCD is due to a FATAL ARRHYTHMIA MOST often arising from ISCHEMIA-INDUCED MYOCARDIAL IRRITABILITY
• Pressure overload results in left ventricular hypertrophy
(LVH)
- The LV wall is CONCENTRICALLY thickened (>1.5cm), weight ≥500gm
Left-sided (systemic) hypertensive disease
Left-sided (systemic) hypertensive disease:
- Diastolic dysfunction can result in LEFT ATRIAL enlargement which can lead to?
- May lead to ?, and is a risk factor for ?
- atrial fibrillation (afib)
* CHF, … SCD
Right-sided (pulmonary) hypertensive disease:
– Isolated right-sided hypertensive heart disease arises in the setting of?
- pulmonary hypertension
Right-sided (pulmonary) hypertensive disease:
• Acute COR PULMONALE may arise from what?
- Marked dilation of RV without hypertrophy
• a large pulmonary embolus
Right-sided (pulmonary) hypertensive disease:
What is the most common cause of pulmonary hypertension?
left-sided heart disease
What are some disorders predisposing to Cor Pulmonale?
• Diseases of the Pulmonary Parenchyma:
- Cystic fibrosis
• Diseases of the Pulmonary Vessels:
- Recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Extensive pulmonary arteritis (e.g., granulomatosis with polyangiitis)
- Drug-, toxin-, or radiation-induced vascular obstruction
- Extensive pulmonary tumor microembolism
• Disorders Affecting Chest Movement:
- Kyphoscoliosis
Pathologic changes of valves are largely of three types: ?
1) damage to COLLAGEN that weakens the leaflets, exemplified by MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE
2) nodular CALCIFICATION beginning in interstitial cells, as in CALCIFIC AORTIC STENOSIS
3) FIBROTIC THICKENING, the key feature in RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
Cardiac valves:
Valvular disease can come to clinical attention due to?
stenosis, insufficiency
(synonyms: regurgitation or incompetence), or both
Cardiac valves:
What term is used to describe the incompetence of a valve stemming from an abnormality in one of its support structures, as opposed to a primary valve defect?
Functional regurgitation
Cardiac valves:
– FUNCTIONAL MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION is particularly common and clinically
important in ?, as well as in ?
- IHD,…. dilated cardiomyopathy
Valvular Heart Dz:
• Valve disease may present with ? and/or ?
• Valve disease may present with stenosis and/or insufficiency
Valvular Heart Dz:
• ? : valve doesn’t OPEN completely, occurs chronically
– Impedes FORWARD flow
– Chronic stenosis may cause PRESSURE overload hypertrophy –> CHF
• Stenosis
Valvular Heart Dz:
• ?: valve doesn’t close completely, may occur acutely or chronically
– Allows REVERSED flow
– Chronic insufficiency may cause VOLUME overload hypertrophy –> CHF
• Insufficiency
Etiologies of Acquired Heart Valve Dz:
Mitral Valve Disease
- Mitral Stenosis = ?
- Mitral Regurgitation= ?
Aortic Valve Disease
- Aortic Stenosis = ?
- Aortic Regurgitation = ?
Mitral Valve Disease
1. Mitral Stenosis = Postinflammatory scarring (rheumatic heart disease) **
- Mitral Regurgitation=
- Abnormalities of Leaflets and Commissures **
- Mitral valve prolapse **
- Abnormalities of Tensor Apparatus
- Abnormalities of Left Ventricle and/or Annulus
Aortic Valve Disease
1. Aortic Stenosis = Calcification of congenitally deformed valve***
- Aortic Regurgitation =
- Postinflammatory scarring (RHEUMATIC heart disease) **
- AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY : dilation of the ascending aorta, often secondary to hypertension and/or aging **
- Syphilitic aortitis
- Marfan syndrome
What is the most common valve abnormality?
Calcific aortic stenosis
Calcific aortic stenosis:
• Prevalence increases with age and usually manifests at what age?
- “wear and tear” is associated with?
- ? valves (BAV) show an ACCELERATED course (increased mechanical stress)
- Affected valves contain ?-LIKE CELLS, which deposit an osteoid-like substance –> ossifies
- ? prevent complete opening of the valve
- 60-80 years
- chronic HTN, hyperlipidemia, inflammation
• Bicuspid valves (BAV) show an accelerated course (increased mechanical stress)
- Bicuspid clinical sx 1-2 DECADES EARLIER than normal valve
- OSTEOBLAST
- Mounded calcifications in cusps prevent complete opening of the valve
What are the symptoms of Calcific aortic stenosis?
Treatment?
angina, CHF, or syncope
- LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY (LVH) develops from increased pressure
- Most patients with aortic stenosis will die within 5 years of developing ANGINA, within 3 years of developing syncope, and within 2 years of CHF
onset - TX: surgical replacement
Calcific deposits occur in the FIBROUS ANNULUS
Mitral annular calcification
Mitral annular calcification:
• Normally does not affect valve function; however there are exceptions…
- REGURGITATION by interfering with physiologic contraction of the valve ring
- STENOSIS by impairing opening of the mitral leaflets
- ARRHYTHMIAS and occasionally SUDDEN DEATH by penetration of calcium deposits to a depth sufficient to impinge on the atrioventricular conduction system
Mitral annular calcification:
– Nodules may become sites for?
thrombus formation or infective endocarditis
Mitral annular calcification:
Most common in what gender and age with what condition?
- F > M,
- > 60 years, with Mitral valve prolapse
Valve leaflets prolapse back into LA during systole
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)
“Floppy”
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP):
Most common in what gender?
Affects 2-3% adults in US; with a 7:1 = F:M, usually incidental (mid systolic click)
What syndrome is it commonly associated with?
Marfan syndrome: FIBRILLIN-1 (FBN-1) mutations; loss of connective tissue support in the mitral valve leaflets makes them soft and billowy, creating a so-called floppy valve
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP):
• Leaflets become thickened and rubbery, due to proteoglycan deposits (?) and elastic fiber disruption
MYXOMATOUS DEGENERATION
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP):
• Characteristic anatomic change in MVP is ?
of the mitral leaflets
interchordal ballooning (hooding)
What are the symptoms of Mitral Valve Prolapse?
• Most are ASYMPTOMATIC, a minority may experience:
– Chest pain mimicking angina (not exertional in nature)
– Dyspnea
What are some serious (but rare) complications of Mitral Valve Prolapse?
– Infective endocarditis
– Mitral insufficiency (+/- chordal rupture)
– Thromboembolism –> stroke or other systemic infarct
– Arrhythmias
What is a treatment for Mitral Valve Prolapse?
Valve repair or replacement surgery can be done for symptomatic patients or those with increased risk for significant complications; in USA, MVP is the most common cause for mitral valve surgery
a multisystem inflammatory disorder following pharyngeal
infection with group A streptococcus
Rheumatic fever
What is the pathogenesis of Rheumatic fever?
immune response to streptococcal M proteins cross reacts with cardiac (among other) self- antigens
What tests are used for Acute Rheumatic fever?
Anti-streptolysin O and anti-DNase B
What are the symptoms of Rheumatic fever?
PANCARDITIS, MIGRATORY POLYARTHRITIS (large jts), subcutaneous nodules,
RASH (ERYTHEMA MARGINATUM)
- SYDENHAM CHOREA: neurologic disorder with involuntary rapid, purposeless movements
What are the cardiac features of Acute RF?
- PANCARDITIS, featuring ASCHOFF BODIES. Also activated macrophages called ANITSCHKOW CELLS
- Inflammation and FIBRINOID NECROSIS of endocardium and left-sided valves, with VERRUCAE (vegetations)
What are the cardiac features of Chronic RF?
• mitral leaflet THICKENING; FUSION of commissures; with shortening, fusion and thickening of cords, –> MITRAL STENOSIS (virtually only cause of mitral stenosis)
- LA ENLARGEMENT –> atrial fib (arrhythmias), thromboembolic events
- pulmonary congestion/RHF; RIGHT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY
An infection of valves or endocardium, characterized by vegetations consisting of microbes and debris, assoc with underlying tissue destruction
- Aorta, aneurysms, other blood vessels and prosthetic devices can become infected
Infective endocarditis (IE)
• ? infective endocarditis is a RAPIDLY PROGRESSING,
destructive infection of a PREVIOUSLY NORMAL valve
- Treatment?
Acute
- Requires SURGERY in addition to antibiotics