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Heart & Pericardium Flashcards

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What are the bony landmarks of the heart location?

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Sternebrae 1-4 (manubriosternal complex)

Costal cartilages 2-6

T5-T8 (thoracic vertebrae)

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What are the layers (and locations) of the pericardium?

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Fibrous peridcardium (outside)

Serous pericardium (inside)

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What are the two types of serous pericardium and their locations?

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Visceral (outside of heart on epicardium)

Parietal (inner lining of fibrous pericardium)

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What type of pericardium forms the two sleeves containing the great vessels?

What structure lies between these two sleeves?

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Parietal serous pericardium

Transverse pericardial sinus

(Rx: ligatures in bypass)

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What is the order of vessels branching from the aorta?

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  1. Brachiocephalic trunk
  2. Left common carotid
  3. Left sublcavian

SVC is R & L brachiocephalic veins

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What sulcus runs between the RA and RV?

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Anterior atrioventricular or coronary sulcus

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Where is the coronary sulcus located?

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Between the RA and RV.

aka anterior atrioventricular groove

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Where is the anterior interventricular sulcus?

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Between RV & LV

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What is the location of the posterior AAV groove/coronary sulcus?

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Delineates where the LV ends and LA begins on the posterior aspect of the heart.

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What valve is between the RA and RV?

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Tricuspid/AV valve

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Where is the tricuspid/AV valve?

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Between RA & RV

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What is the musculi pectinati?

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Ridged muscle on internal anterior wall of RA

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What lines the interior anterior wall of the RA?

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Musculi pectinati and crista terminalis

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What is the sinus venarum?

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Smooth lining of the posterior interior wall of the RA

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What is the crista terminalis?

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At the right border of the heart

End of the musculi pectinati ridges and beginning of sinus venarum (moving anterior to posterior) inside the RA

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Venous return of the SVC comes from

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head, neck, thorax (except heart), upper limbs

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Venous return from the IVC comes from

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Everything below diaphragm

abdomen, pelvis, lower limbs

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What is the function of the coronary sinus?

Where does it enter?

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Venous return from the coronary vessels of the heart

Enters RA next to IVC

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What are the names of the vena caval valves?

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None. SVC has no valve; IVC is rudimentary

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The fossa ovalis is

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Remnant depression from foramen ovale in the interatrial septum

Foramen ovale allows bypass of the pulmonary circulation in the developing fetus because the lungs are not oxygenating the blood

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Which valves are semilunar?

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Aortic and pulmonary

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Where are the trabeculae carnae?

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Internal surface of the ventricles

They stop just before the entrance to the pulmonary valve, at the infindibulum

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The infindibulum is
where the trabeculae carnae of re RV stop before the pulmonary valve aka conus arteriosus
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What are the papillary muscles?
Specialized trabeculae carnae that attach to the cups of the cuspid valves via chordae tendinae RV: 3 (to tricuspid) LV: 2 (to bicuspid)
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What is unique about the LA relative to the structure of the RA?
All of the walls are smooth, except for the appendage with the 4 openings for each pair of pulmonary veins
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What are the two functions of the fibrous skeleton?
1. Anchors the atrial and ventricular muscle masses together while electrically isolating them 2. Provides attachements for the base of each valve cusp (the part not attached to the chordae tendinae)
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What is the structure of the fibrous skeleton?
Figure 8/conjoined circles around the AV valves (mitral and tricuspid) 2 coronets around the semilunar valves (aortic and pulmonary)
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Do chordae tendinae open valves, or close valves?
Neither. They hold the valve closed to prevent backflow during ventricular contraction (systole) where V pressure exceeds A pressure
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What is the structure of the semilunar valves?
BOTH HAVE 3 CUSPS Base: attached to interior (intima) surface of the aorta and pulmonary vessels; external to this join lies the coronets of the fibrous skeleton Apices: free flowing in the centre of the vessels; no muscles, chordae tendinae, etc.
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Where are the origins of the R & L coronary arteries?
In the aortic sinus at the base of the aorta attaching to the LV; in 2/3 aortic cusps
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What type of tissue is the conducting system made of?
Specialized myocardium
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The SA node sits
On the crista terminalis (between musculi pectanati and sinus venarum in RA) Anterior to the SVC
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The AV node sits
On the posterior wall of the RA, between the tricuspid (AV) valvue and the coronary sinus
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What is the order of the electrical conduction pathway?
SA conducting fibres AV Bundle of His (through fibrous skeleton) R (Ant) & L (Post) bundle branches (interventricular septum) Purkinje fibres (ventricular walls)
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Where does the external nervous innervation come from?
Superficual and deep branches of the cardiac plexus at the base of the heart. PS from vagus SS from sympathetic trunks
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What does the right coronary artery supply?
**Right-side structures, (mostly) anterior**: * descends AAV/coronary sulcus * turns posteriorly @ inferior border, via AIC/coronary sulcus * gives off the **posterior interventricular branch** which anastamoses posteriorly with the **anterior interventricular branch** of LCA * the rest continues and anastamoses w/**circumflex branch** of LCA
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What does the left coronary artery supply?
**Left-sided structures, (mostly) posterior:** L coronary artery, divides into: * **anterior interventricular branch** via AIV groove, turns at inferior border to anastamose with **posterior interventricular branch** of RCA * **circumflex branch** via atrioventricular groove to anastamose w/RCA
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What is the blood supply to the SA & AV nodes?
R coronary artery 60% of cases, supplies SA 80-90% of cases, supplies AV
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