Module 2 : Vascular Structures Flashcards
The cardiac cycle
Arteries with O2 take blood from left ventricle to muscles
Veins return without O2 from muscles to right atrium then right ventricle
Right ventricle to lungs to get O2
O2 blood returns to left atrium
Composition of Arteries AND veins
3 layers - coat or tunica
- Tunica intima (interna)
- innermost
- endothelial lining and elastic tissue - Tunica media (middle layer)
- elastic fiber and smooth muscle
- thicker in arteries than veins (withstand pressure) - Tunica adventitia (externa)
- outermost
- elastic and collagen fibers
Differences between arteries and veins
- Arterial wall thicker (tunica media)
- Arteries maintain shape
- Venous diameter varies with breath
- Arteries influenced by heart contractions
- Veins influenced by muscle contractions, pressure gradients, breathing
- veins have larger total diameter
- blood flow slower in veins
Anatomy of aorta
- retroperitoneal
- pierces diaphragm at aortic hiatus at T12
- anterior to spine and left of midline
- moving caudal becomes more anterior and tapers distally
Anatomical relationships - anterior to ao
- crura of diaphragm
- celiac axis
- lesser sac
- SMA
- left Renal Vein
- body of Panc
- ima
- splenic vein and artery
- left lobe of liver
Anatomical relationships - lateral to aorta
Crura of diaphragm
Anatomical relationships- anteroleft
GE junction
Branches of aorta
- celiac axis
- superior mesenteric artery
- right and left renal arteries
- right and left gonadal arteries
- inferior mesenteric artery
- common iliac artery
Celiac axis
- within 2 cm of aorta
- celiac trunk
- T or Y shaped
- 3 branches
+ common hepatic, left gastric, splenic - each branch supplies multiple but primary to their name
Left gastric artery
- not well seen
- anterior and superior course
- descends along lesser curvature of the stomach
- smallest
Common hepatic artery
- horizontal path to the right
- superior to Panc Head
- enters liver at porta hepatis (turns anterior)
- anterior to MPV
- gives of gastroduodenal artery and becomes hepatic artery proper
- divide into left and right hepatic artery within the liver
Branches of hepatic artery
Gastroduodenal
Right gastric
Cystic
Gastroduodenal artery
Courses caudally posteromedial to duodenum
Landmark for anterolateral aspect of Panc head
Cystic artery
Arises rom right hepatic artery
Supplies gallbladder, CBD, andnhepatic ducts
Splenic artery
- travels left toward spleen
- largest of three branches
- tortuous
- posterior and superior to panc
- supplies blood to Panc, spleen, stomach
Superior mesenteric artery (SMA)
- anterior surface 1cm inferior to celiac axis
- posterior to Panc body
- anterior to uncinate and third part of duodenum
- courses inferiory
- blood supply for right small bowel and large bowel
Renal arteries
- slightly inferior to SMA
- RRA runs posterior to IVC
- RRA longer than LRA
- several branches at the renal hilum
Gonadal arteries
- not typically visualized
- anterior aorta
- inferior to renal arteries
Inferior mesenteric artery (IMA)
- last major branch
- anterior aspect
- courses inferior and left
- supplies transverse descending and sigmoid and rectum
- not usually seen