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Lecture 4 Anatomy of Heart Flashcards

• Describe the general organization of the cardiovascular system. • Orientate the heart within the thorax. • Describe the chambered structure of the heart and related this to the pumping action of the organ. • Name the layers of the heart wall.

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Cardiovascular system organs. (incl what it does)

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Heart (pump), Arteries (supply), Veins/Lymphatics (drainage), Capillaries (Exchange)

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what are organs made up of?

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Vascular tissue

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What is Vascular tissue made up of?

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Connective tissue
Cells
Epithelia

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What do cells consist of in the cardiovascular system?

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Epithelia

Muscle

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Blood Vascular System

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A closed supply and drainage system.
- a continuous loop

2 loops
1 loop from heart to lungs then to heart.
Another loop from heart going to all other tissues then back to heart.
Supplying and draining capillary beds in the body.

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Lymphatic (Vascular) System

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  • An open-entry drainage system.

- a one-way system

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Organisation of the cardiovascular system

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Supply side

Exchange network

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Heart

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Pump
Centre
drives blood through body

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Arteries

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Supply network - pipes

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Capillaries

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Exchange surfaces -

bring nutrients, gases in, and wastes out

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Veins Lymphatics

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Drainage

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Epithelial cells

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Barriers between environments - barrier between one surface and another

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Muscle

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Cardiac

Smooth

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Blood flow

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on right side of heart there is a tubular structure going from capillaries to lungs for gas exchange and going to the left side of the heart.

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Pulmonary circulation -

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Sending deoxygenated blood from right side of heart to lungs (reoxygenated). The reoxygenated blood returns in veins to the left side of the heart.

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Supply side
Organization of the cardiovascular system
(incl what the supply side does, what will happen if damaged?, where situated?)

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  • Only arteries in supply path
  • Major arteries are situated to avoid damage (eg: deep in the trunk; on flexor aspect of limbs).
  • Carries blood under high pressure and high velocity, if artery severed you will lose a lot of blood quickly
  • Important structures receive blood from two arteriol sources (two separate arteries).
  • Arteries change their name at each major branch.
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Exchange network - types of capillaries

Organization of the cardiovascular system

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Continuous (controlled ~ tight)
Fenestrated (leaky)
Sinusoidal (very leaky)

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Exchange network - 3 different types of capillaries with varying degrees of permeability

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(How easy to leave the lumen where the blood cells are and cross into the interstitial space surrounding the capillary)

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3 pathways for drainage

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  • Deep veins (Venous)- next to deep supply arteries draining in opposite direction
  • Superficial veins (venous) blood loss is less significant and blood travels slower at lower pressure
  • Lymphatics
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why is Cross-sectional area of veins is at least twice that of arteries?

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to shift the same volume of blood / second.

otherwise all peripheral tissues (eg hand) would swell because supply of the arteries wouldn’t match the drainage of the veins.

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How do we balance when the supply is under high pressure and velocity, and the drainage is under low pressure and low velocity?

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Increase the CSA of the drainage channels to get the same number of ml / second draining back towards the heart as pumping towards the tissue.

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Heart shape

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Blunt, cone shaped
Pointed end- Apex
Broad end - Base
Rotation and tilt brings ⅔ of heart to the left

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PMI

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point of maximal impulse

loudest beat

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where does the heart sit?

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within chest, laterally, behind sternum,
⅔ to left
size of loosely closed fist. Between 2 & 3 ribs is superior aspect of heart,
Midclavicular line of left clavicle between 5 & 6 ribs is the intercostal space Apex beat PMI (point of maximal impulse) against anterior chest wall.

25
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Right ventricle of heart most anterior chamber towards sternum
Left atrium towards posterior towards thoracic vertebrae
Space/Cavity where heart sits is mediastinum

*don’t think I need to know

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  • most anterior chamber towards sternum
  • posterior towards thoracic vertebrae
  • heart sits is mediastinum
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Right atrium -

Right ventricle -

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  • receives deoxygentaed blood from body and is drained to right ventricle.
  • Delivers deoxygenated blood from right atrium into the pulmonary artery to be reoxygenated in lungs.
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Left atrium -

Left ventricle -

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  • receives oxygenated blood via 2 left lung veins and is drained to left ventricle
  • oxygenated blood is pumped through a valve into the aorta.
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Interventricular septum -

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septal structures which separates the left and right ventricles.

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Atrium

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left and right. thin walled (receiving) chambers

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Right atrium receives blood from:

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  • superior vena cava, (all the blood draining back from the head, neck,chest and upper limbs)
  • inferior vena cava, (below diaphragm, draining back towards the right side of the heart.
  • coronary sinus. (Venous drainage of the heart. The blood supply to the heart drains back into the sinus structure posterior to the heart and drains back into the right atrium
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Left atrium receives blood from

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  • 4 pulmonary veins

(bringing oxygenated blood from lungs back towards the left side of heart for distribution into systemic circuit

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Layers of the heart wall

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Endocardium, - inner most, chamber (ventricle), thin layer

Myocardium, - middle, cardiac muscle layer, thickest

Epicardium, - outer

Pericardium - protective sac that the heart sits within

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Endocardium the thin delicate layer that faces onto the chamber. consists of…

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  • Endothelium (forms a non stick surface) it’s Simple squamous epithelium (barrier between the wall and lumen or chamber of heart).
  • Loose irregular fibrous connective tissue (FCT)
    (irregular orientated, support epithelial cells)
  • Small blood vessels
  • Purkinje fibres (specialised conduction pathways which use the endocardium layer to run around the heart)
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If there was no endothelium the blood will

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clot inside the pipes, chambers of heart

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Myocardium thickness in
right ventricle
left ventricle

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  • 0.5cm thick

- 1.5cm thick

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Why is the muscle thicker?

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Need a lot of muscle as The systemic circuit (Aorta) has to generate a lot of pressure to push the blood around the body. Overcome gravity.

Need less muscle as the Pulmonary circuit (Lungs) blood travels a short journey to the lungs from the right side of heart and requires less pressure.

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Epicardium consists of

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  • visceral serous pericardium (membrane that sits against organ)
  • Blood vessels (artery & vein)
  • Loose irregular FCT
  • Adipose (soft padding around the structures)
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Pericardium membrane has 2 different names

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visceral (membrane that sits against organ)

parietal (faces away from organ)

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Pericardium

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  • Fibrous Pericardium
  • Parietal serous pericardium
  • Pericardial cavity
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Pericardial cavity -

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lubricant space where the heart lies, and allows the heart to beat in a lubricated environment. reduce friction.

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Deep veins (Venous)

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  • next to deep supply arteries draining in opposite direction
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Superficial veins (venous)

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blood loss is less significant and blood travels slower at lower pressure

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Superior vena cava,

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All the blood draining back from the head, neck,chest and upper limbs

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Inferior vena cava

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Below diaphragm, draining back towards the right side of the heart.

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Coronary sinus.

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Venous drainage of the heart.
The blood supply to the heart drains back into the sinus structure posterior to the heart and drains back into the right atrium.

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Endothelium

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forms a non stick surface

Simple squamous epithelium (barrier between the wall and lumen or chamber of heart).

makes up endocardium

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Loose irregular fibrous connective tissue (FCT)

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irregular orientated, support epithelial cells

makes up endocardium

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Purkinje fibres

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Specialised conduction pathways which use the endocardium layer to run around the heart.

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