Lecture 1 Flashcards
Apex
-bottom
Formed by tip of left ventricle
Base
- top
- Approximately at the level of the 2nd costal cartilages
Anterior Surface
consists primarily of right ventricle
Number of upper chambers
- two
- right and left atria
Number of lower chambers
- two
- right and left ventricles
Right ventricle moves
venous blood to the pulmonary circulation
Left ventricle moves
arterial blood to the systemic cirvulation
Interatrial septum
separates right and left atria
Fossa Ovalis
- depression in the interatrial septum
- remnant of foramen ovale
Failure to close foramen ovale is
Patent foramen ovale
Atrial septal defect
an interatrial septum that fails to develop properly
Interventricular Septum
separates right and left ventricles
Ventricular septal defects
- most common congenital cardiac abnormalities
- Found in 30-60% of all newborns with congenital heart defect or about 2-6 per 1000 births
Ventricular septal defect is aquired by
a few days after myocardial infraction due to macrophage remodeling of dead heart tissue before scar tissue forms
Heart must contact forcefully and overcome
aortic and pulmonary pressure in order to pump blood.
Each ventricle hold about
- 150 ml (at end diastolic volume) when full
- Only about half is ejected (70-80 ml)
Stroke Volume
70-80 ml
Ejection Fraction equation
Stroke Volume/End Diastolic Volume x 100%
Layers of the heart
1- Endocardium
2-Myocardium
3-Epicardium
Endocardium
1- Innermost layer
2- Lines inner chambers, valves, chordae tendineae and papillary muscles