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What does the base of the heart consist of?

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  • the left atrium
  • a small portion of the right atrium
  • the proximal parts of the great veins (superior and inferior venae cavae and the pulmonary veins)
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Where is the base of the heart directed?

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It is quadrilateral and directed posteriorly + fixed posteriorly to the pericardial wall

Oesophagus lies immediately posterior to the base

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What is the apex of the heart formed by and where is it positioned?

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Positioned deep to the left fifth intercostal space, 8-9 cam from midsternal line

Formed by the inferolateral part of the left ventricle

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What does the anterior surface face and consist of?

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  • Faces anteriorly
  • Consists mostly of right ventricle
  • Has some of right atrium on right

Has some of left ventricle on the left

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In the anatomical position, what does the heart rest on?

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  • The diphragmatic surface
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What does the diphragmatic surface consist of?

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  • Consists of left ventricle + small portion of right ventricle
  • Rests on the diaphragm
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What does the left pulmonary surface face + what does it consist of?

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  • Faces the left lung
  • Broad + convex
  • Consists of left ventricle + portion of left atrium
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What does the right pulmonary surface face + consist of?

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  • Faces the righ lung
  • Is broad + convex
  • Consists of right atrium
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What are the right and left margins the same as?

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  • The right and left pulmonary surfaces of the heart
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What is the interior margin defined as?

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  • The sharp edge between the anterior and diaphragmatic surface of the heart
  • formed mostly by right ventricle + small portion of left ventricle near apex
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What is the obtuse margin?

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  • Separates anterior and left pulmonary surfaces
  • It’s round + extends from left auricle to cardiac apex
  • Formed mostly by left ventricle + superiorly by small portion of left auricle
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What does the right border in a standard posteroanterior view consist of?

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  • The superior vena
  • Right atrium
  • Inferior vena cava
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What does the left border consist of?

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  • arch of aorta
  • pulmonary trunk
  • left auricle
  • left ventricle
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What does the inferior border consist of?

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= Right ventricle and left ventricle at the apex

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Label the image

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What is the coronary sulcus and what does it contain?

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  • Circles the heart, separating the atria from the ventricles
  • Contans the right coronary artery, the small cardiac vein, the coronary sinus + circumflex branch of left coronary artery
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Label the image of coronary sulcus

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What sulci separates the 2 ventricles + what does it contain?

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  • Anterior and posterior interventricular sulci
  • The anterior interventricular sulcus is on anterior surface of the heart -> contains the anterior interventricular artery and great cardiac vein
  • Posterior interventricular sulcus is on diaphragmatic surface of heart -> contains posterior interventricular artery + middle cardiac vein
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Why does the left ventricule have a thicker muscular wall than the right?

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More force is required to pump blood through the bdy than through the lungs

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How does the blood return to the right atrium?

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Enters through 1 of 3 vessels:

  • Superior + inferior venae cavae -> together deliver blood to heart from body =
  • coronary sinus -> returns blood from heart walls
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Where does the superior and inferior vena cava enter the right atrium?

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  • Superior vena cava -> enters upper posterior portion of right atrium
  • Inferior vena cava + coronary sinus enter lower posterior portion of right atrium
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What is the heart housed inside of?

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  • Located within the mediastinum (the middle mediastinum)
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Label this image of the mediastinum and what type of image is it

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  • Cross section through the mediastinum
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Label this image

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  • Saggital view of mediastinum
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Inside the mediastinum, what is the heart contained in?

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  • Contained in the pericardial sac
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What is the pericardial sac?

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  • Fibroserous sac surrounding heart and great vessels
  • Consists of 2 layers: fibrous and serous
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Describe the fibrous layer of the pericardium

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  • Strong connective tissue
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Describe the serous layer of the pericardium

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  • Inner layer
  • Encloses pericardial cavity which encloses pericardial fluid
  • Divided into 2 layers:
    1) Parietal (lines fibrous pericardium) -> most superficial layer of pericardium

Made up of dense + loose connective tissue, protects the heart + anchors it to surrounding walls

2) Visceral part -> adheres to heart

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What are the 2 separate pumps of the heart?

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  • Pulmonary pump -> delivers poorly oxygenated blood to the lungs where it is oxygenated and returned to the heart
  • Systemic pump -> delivers highly oxygenated blood to rest of body
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Describe the pathway at which blood moves through the heart

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  • Blood leaves the left ventricle via aorta (head, neck to rest of body)
  • Returns to right atrium through the superior vena cava or inferior vena cava (deoxygenated)
  • Goes to right ventricle where it exits the heart into the pulmonary trunk and into either right or left pulmonary artery.
  • Dexoygenated blood travels to lungs
  • Blood returns from the lungs via pulmonary veins into left atrium
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What do the different surfaces consist of?

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  • Anterior or sternocostal surface, formed mainly by the right ventricle
  • Inferior or diaphragmatic surface, formed mainly by the left ventricle
  • Posterior surface, formed mainly by left atrium
  • apex formed entirely by left ventricle
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What is the line of demarcation between the right atrium and right ventricle?

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  • The atrioventricular groove
  • The right coronary artery lies in this groove
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What is the pulmonary trunk?

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  • Leaves the right ventricle by passing superiorly and to the left
  • Then divides into right and left pulmonary arteries beneath arch of aorta
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What groove is inferior to the root of the pulmonary trunk?

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  • Anterior interventricular groove -> inferior to the root of the pulmonary trunk
  • Allows distinction between the right and left ventricles on surface of heart
35
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What coronary vessel lies withn the anterior interventricular groove?

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36
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How many branches does the aortic arch have and what are they?

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  • Brachiocephalic trunk
  • Left common carotid artery
  • Left subclavian artery
37
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Label this digram

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38
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What do each of the branches of the aortic arch supply?

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1) Brachiocephalic trunk supplies head, neck and upper limb on the right side

it splits into right common carotid artery and right subclavian artery (brachiocephalic artery crosses over to right side of trachea where it divides into right subclavian artery that passes laterally over first rib to enter axilla)

2) Left common carotid artery -> artery supplying head + neck on left side
3) Left subclavian artery -> artery supplying upper limb on left side

39
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How does venous return occur?

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  • Venous return occurs from systemic circulation via 2 brachiocephalic veins
40
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How are the brachiocephalic veins formed? What do they form once they join together?

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  • Brachiocephalic veins are formed from the union of an internal jugular vein in the neck and a subclavian vein
  • Left brachiocephalic vein and right brachiocephalic vein join together to form superior vena cava (empties into right atrium)
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Label this diagram

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42
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What are the 2 atrioventricular valves and semi-lunar valves of the heart?

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  • Mitral and tricuspid valves (atrioventricular)
  • Aortic and pulmonary valves (semilunar)
43
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What is the name for the left atrioventricular valve and what is its function?

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  • Mitral valve
  • Prevents backflow from left ventricle to left atrium
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What is the name for the right atrioventricular valve and what is its function?

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  • Tricuspid valve
  • Allows blood from right atrium to right ventricle
  • Prevents blood back-filling from ventricle to atrium
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What is the name of the left semilunar valve and what does it do?

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  • Aortic valve
  • Allows blood from left ventricle into aorta
46
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What is the name of the right semilunar valve and what does it do?

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  • Pulmonary valve
  • Allows blood from right ventricle into pulmonary trunk
47
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Label this image

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48
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What are the small attachments of tendons that anchor the tricuspid cusps into the ventricle wall?

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Chordae tendinae

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What do the chordae tendinae insert into?

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Insert into ventricle wall (into the papillary muscle)

50
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How many cusps do the tricuspid valve have and what are they?

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  • 3 cusps
  • Anterior
  • Septal towards the septum
  • Posterior cusp
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Label the image

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52
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What happens to the chordae tendinae during ventricular contraction?

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  • During ventricular contraction, chordae tendinae are pulled taut
  • Prevents back flow of blood into atrium
53
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Why are there 2 openings within the aortic valvc in the wall of the aorta?

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  • For the coronary arteries
  • These supply the heart muscle with highly oxygenated blood
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Label this image

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55
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Where does the right coronary artery emerge from and where does it travel?

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  • Emerges from right aortic sinus
  • Travels along margin of right atrium and right ventricle
  • A marginal branch travels on inferior surface of heart towards apex
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What is the name of a main branch of left coronary artery that descends between L and R ventricle?

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  • Anterior interventricular branch
  • Circumflex branch that goes behind + down posterior surface of the heart
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Label the image

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58
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What is the name of the main coronary drainage vessel?

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Coronary sinus

59
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What vessels accompany coronary arteries?

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Coronary veins (most of them are tributaties of the coronary sinus)

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What does the coronary sinus receive + what happens to the blood after?

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  • Receives tributaties of cardiac veins
  • The small, middle, great and posterior cardiac veins
  • Systemic blood gets returned to the same chamber of the heart that system returns deoxygenated blood to -> atrium
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What is the conducting system of the heart composed of?

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  • Connections of carfiac cells + interconnecting fibre bundles
  • These initiate electrical impulses + rapidly conduct them through the heart
  • System includes sinoatrial node, atrioventricular node, atrioventricular bundle or Bundle of His + purkinje fibers
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Where is the electrical impulse generated in the heart?

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  • Impulse is generated in the SAN
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From the SAN, where does the impulse travel?

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  • Transmitted from SA node to AV node along bundle of His + into ventricular wall
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Label the image

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65
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What is the mediastinum + how is it divided?

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  • Central component of the thoracic cavity, located between the pleural sacs
  • contains most of the thoracic organs
  • divided into two parts by imaginary line from sternal angle to T4 vertebrae
66
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What is the superior mediastinum?

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Extends upwards

terminates at superior thoracic aperture

67
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Vessel structures contained within the superior mediastinum?

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  • 3 major branches of aortic arch (braciocephalic, left common carotid + left subclavian artery)
  • tributaries of superior vena cava (brachiocephalic veins, left superior intercostal vein, supreme intercostal vein + azygos vein)
68
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Nerves in the superor mediastinum?

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  • Vagus nerve (right vagus nerve runs parallel to trachea + passes posteriorly to SVC and right primary bronchus)

(left vagus nerve enters superior mediastinum between left common carotid + left subclavian arteries. descends anteriorly to aortic arch + travels posterior to left bronchus)

  • phrenic nerves enter superior mediastinum from anterior scalene muscle + descend anteriorly into middle mediastinum, passing anteriorly to lung hilum.
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Other structures in superior mediastinum?

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  • Thymus gland (most anterior structure in superior mediastinum + sits aganst posterior surface of sternum)
  • Trachea (birfurcates into primary bronchi posterior to ascending aorta)
  • Oesophagus (join with pharynx at C8)
  • Throacic duct (passes to left of oesophagus on its path to the junction of the left internal jugular and subclavian veins.)
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Muscles in the superior mediastinum?

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  • Sternohyoid muscle
  • Sternothyroid muscle
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What are the borders of the anterior mediastinum?

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Lateral borders: Mediastinal pleura (part of the parietal pleural membrane).

Anterior border: Body of the sternum and the transversus thoracis muscles.

Posterior border: Pericardium.

Roof: Continuous with the superior mediastinum at the level of the sternal angle.

Floor: Diaphragm.

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What resides in anterior mediastinum?

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  • No major structure: some lymphatic vessels + nodes etc
  • In infants, thymus extends inferiorly into anterior mediastinum BUT recedes during puberty + replaced mostly by adipose tissue in adults.
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What are the borders of the middle mediastinum?

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Anterior: Anterior margin of the pericardium.

Posterior: Posterior border of the pericardium.

Laterally: Mediastinal pleura of the lungs.

Superiorly: Imaginary line extending between the sternal angle (the angle formed by the junction of the sternal body and manubrium) and the T4 vertebrae.

Inferiorly: Superior surface of the diaphragm.

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What organs does the middle mediastinum contain?

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  • the heart + its protective sheath (pericardium)
  • tracheal bifurcation + left and right main bronchi
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What vessels are contained in the middle mediastinum?

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  • Ascending aorta (first part of aorta which arises from aortic orifice -> moves upwards exiting the fibrous pericardium + enters superior mediastinum where it becomes aortic arch -> gives rise to 2 branches L + R coronary arteries)
  • Pulmonary trunk -> gives rise to left and right pulmonary arteries
  • Superior vena cava (returns deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body -> formed by right and left brachiocephalic veins)
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What nerves are located in the middle mediastinum?

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  • Cardiac plexus -> network of nerves located at the base of the heart (containing sympathetic, derived from T1-T4 segments of spine + parasympathetic fibres -> supplied by vagus nerve)
  • Phrenic nerves (motor innervation to diaphragm -> arise in neck + descend through middle mediastinum to diaphragm)
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What lympatics are located in middle mediastinum?

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  • Tracheobronchial lymph nodes
  • Group of nodes associated with trachea + bronchia -> form from the gathering of bronchial nodes within the hila of the lungs
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What are the borders of the posterior mediastinum?

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Lateral: Mediastinal pleura (part of the parietal pleural membrane).

Anterior: Pericardium.

Posterior: T5-T12 vertebrae.

Roof: Imaginary line extending between the sternal angle (the angle formed by the junction of the sternal body and manubrium) and the T4 vertebrae.

Floor: Diaphragm.

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What vessels are contained in the posterior mediastinum?

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  • The thoracic aorta (continuation of the arch of the aorta beginning at lower edge of T4 vertebra -> descends through posterior mediastinum. At inferior border of T12, thoracic aorta becomes abdominal aorta, passing through aortic hiatus of the diaphragm)
  • Thoracic duct -> largest lymphatic vessel in the body (allowing lymph return from rest of body into venous system -> enters mediastinum via aortic hiatus)

ascends to lie directly anterior to T6-T12 vertebrae

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What organs are in the posterior mediastinum?

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