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What muscles assist in inspiration?

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Diaphragm

Mainly external intercostals–> expand ribs outwards

Assisted by SCM and scalenes

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What law allows respiration?

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Boyle’s law

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What is FRC?

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Amount of air left in lungs at end of passive exhalation

Opposing elastic recoil forces of lungs and chest at equilibrium

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What does the thoracic wall consist of?

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Skin, fascia, nerves, vessels, muscles, cartilages and bones

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What are the functions of the thoracic wall?

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  • Protects thoracic and abdominal organs
  • resists negative internal pressure generated by elastic recoil of lungs and inspiratory movmeent
  • Provides attachment for and supports weight of upper limb, neck, abdomen, and back, muscles of respiration
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What composes the superior thoracic aperture?

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  • Allows communication b/w the thoracic cavity and neck and uper limbs
  • Bounded
    • poteriorly by T1
    • Laterally by first pair of ribs and their costal cartialges
    • anteriorly by superior border of the manubrium
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What composes the inferior thoracic aperture?

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  • Allows communication between thoracic cavity and abdomen
  • Bounded
    • posteriorly by the T12 vertebrae
    • Posterolaterally by 11-12th pair of rib
    • Anterolaterally by joined costal cartilages of 7-10 ribs
    • Anteriorly by xiphisternal join
    • diaphragm closes this space almost completely, separting the two cavities
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What composes the thoracic skeleton?

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  • 12 pairs of ribs and costal cartilages
  • 12 thoracic vertebrae and intervertebral disc
  • Sternum
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What composes the 12 ribs and costal cartilages?

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  • True ribs (vertebrosternal ribs) 1-7th ribs
    • cartilage attached to sternum
  • False ribs (vertebrochondral ribs) 8-10th ribs
    • share cartilage
  • Floating (free) ribs 11 & 12th ribs
    • Protecting for kidney
  • Costal cartialges prolong ribs anteriorly and add elasticity
  • Intercostal space are names in relation to rib on superior border
    • subcostal space is immediately below 12th rib
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What parts form the sternum?

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  • Manubrium
    • lies T3-T4
    • Clnical landmark
      • Jugular (suprasternal) notch
      • Sternal angle (of louis)
        • oppositie 2nd pair costal cartilages
        • level of T4-T5
  • Body
    • T5-T9
  • Xiphoid process
    • T10 level
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A/I of external intercostals

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Action

  • forced inspiration elevates ribs

Innervation

-Intercostal Nerve

“fibers go like hands in pockets”

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A/I of internal intercostals?

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Action

  • forced respiration, interosseous part depresses ribs; interchondral part elevates ribs

Innervation

-Intercostal nerve

“muscle fibers go like arms crossed”

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A/I innermost intercostal?

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Action

  • Forced inspiration; interosseous part depresses ribs; interchondral part elevates ribs

Innervation

-Intercostal nerve

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A/I Transversus thoracic?

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Action

  • weakly depresses ribs

Innervation

  • Intercostal nerve
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A/I subcostal muscle?

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Action

  • act in same manner as internal intercostal (forced respiration; interosseous part depresses ribs; interchondral part elevates ribs)

Innervation

-Intercostal nerve

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How is the intercostal nuroevascular bundle arranged within muscle layers of the thorax?

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“VAN” (superior –> inferior)

Vein

Artery

Nerve

NV bundle in between internal and innermost intercostals

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Where do the external intercostals run?

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Run from vertebral column, stops short of sternum (around costal catilages)

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Where do internal intercostals run?

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Run from sternum, stops short of vertebral column

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Where do innermost intercostals run?

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Found at the most lateral parts of intercostal spaces

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Where does transversus thoracis muscles run?

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anterior thoracic wall

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Where do subcostal muscles run?

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Posterior thoracic wall

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What is the diaphragm?

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  • Chief muscle of inspiration
  • Dome shaped with left and right domes
    • right dome is slightly higher than left due to presense of liver
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What are the diaphragmatic apertures?

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  • Caval opening
  • Esophageal hiatus
  • Aortic hiatus
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What is the caval opening?

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  • Located in central tendon
  • Allows IVC and terminal branches of phrenic nerve to pass into abdominal cavity
  • During inspiration, diaphragm contracts, causing this opening to widen which allows dilation of IVC and increased blood return to heart
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What is esophageal hiatus?
* Diaphragm acts as muscular sphincter for esophagus that constricts when diaphragm contracts * transmits vagus nerve to abominal cavity
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What is the aortic hiatus?
* Opening posterior to the diaphragm, therefore blood flow is not affected by respiration * Transmits * descending aorta, * azygos vein and * thoracic duct to abdominal cavity
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What innervates thoracic wall?
* Thoracic segment of spinal cord supplies 12 pairs thoracic nerve * anterior and posterior rami * anterior rami T1-T11 form intercostal nerves' T12 subcostal nerves * posterior rami supply deep muscle and skin of back * Intercostal nerves 1 and 2 pass on internal surfaces of 1st and 2nd ribs, all other along the inferior margin of costal grooves * VAN-NAV * Intercostal nerves 7-11 continue to supply abdominal skin and muscle * Lateral and anterior cutaneous branches * rami communication with sympathetic trunk to reach blood vessels, sweat glands and smooth muscles
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What are the dermatomes we need to know?
T4- nipple T6- xyphoid T8-last rib T10- umbilicus
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What is arterial supply to thoracic wall?
* Thoracic aorta * intercostal and subcostal branches * Subclavian artery * supreme intercostal arteries * internal thoracic arteries
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What composes the thoracic wall venous system?
* Anterior intercostal veins --\> internal thoracic veins --\> brachiocephalic veins * Posterior intercostal veins--\> azygos, hemizygos, accessory hemiazygos veins--\> vena vava * hemiazygos and accessory hemi-azygos empty into azygos vein
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What is venous pathway on right side thorax?
Azygos--\> SVC
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What is venous pathway on left side thorax?
Hemizaygos/accessory azygous--\> azygous--\> SVC
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What is the thoracic duct?
* Where lymph of body is transmitted * Orginates from cisterna chyli * Beaded appearance due to valves * Empties into venous system near left internal jugular and left brachiocephalic vein or left subclavian vein region
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What forms pleurae of lungs?
* Visceral pleura * adherent to all surfaces of the lungs * Parietal pleura * lines the wall of the thoracic cavity, the mediatsinum and the diaphragm * Continuous with each other * pleural sac * pleural fluid, lubricates the pleural surfaces to allow layers to slide smoothly with respiration * Root of lung enclosed within the area of continuity * Lungs to not completely occupy the pleural cavities * costodiaphragmatic and costomediatsinal recessess
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What comprises the lungs? Surfaces? Borders?
* Organ of respiration * Fissures- lobes * Apex * above level of first rib into root of neck * Three surfaces * costal surface * mediastinal surgace * diaphragmatic surface * Three borders * anterior border * inferior border * posterior border
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Features of right side of lung?
* Horizontal and oblique fissues * 3 lobes * superior, middle and inferior lobe * Larger and heavier, but shorter and wider than left lung, due to right dome of diaphragm being higher
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What is the arrangement of root of right lung?
* Hilum- joins lung to heart and trachea * pulmonary artery (deoxygenated) anterior, superior * 2 pulmonary veins (oxygenated)- inferior * Bronchus/bronchi- superior posterior
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Characteristics of left lung?
* Oblique fissure * 2 lobes * superior and inferior * Cardiac notch and cardiac impression * lingula
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What is organization of root of left lung?
* Hilum - joins lung to heart and trachea * Pulmonary artery (deoxygenated)= most superior * 2 pulmonary veins- anterior inferior * Bronchus/bronchi- posterior
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Where is the carina?
T4
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Organization of mainstem bronchi?
* Right mainstem is 2.5 cm long with angle 25 degree and wider than left * Left mainstem is 5 cm long with angle of 45 degrees
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Organization of bronchial tree?
* Carina * mainstem bronchi * lobar bronchi (secondary) * Right has 3 * Left has 2 * segmental bronchi (tertiary) * 20-25 generation of branches that end in terminal bronchioles * respiratory bronchioles (beginning of gas exchange) * alveolar ducts * alveolar sacs (basic unit of gas exchange)
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What composes the pulmonary trunk?
* Pulmonary artery (1 to each lung) * Deoxygenated blood * Enters hilum * Lobar and segmental arteries * •Pulmonary veins (2 to each lung) * Oxygenated blood * Empty into left atrium
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What provides the vasculature of the lungs?
* Bronchial arteries * Blood to structures comprising the roots of the lungs, supporting tissues of the lungs and visceral pleura * Branch of the aorta; run posterior to main bronchi * Blood to main bronchi to respiratory bronchioles * Bronchial veins * Drain only part of the blood supplied by bronchial arteries * Right drains into the azygos vein and left into accessory hemi-azygos vein * Remainder of blood is drained by pulmonary veins (oxygenated blood) into left atrium * Physiologic shunt
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What is the pulmonary plexus?
* Pulmonary plexus * Anterior and posterior to roots of the lung * Parasympathetic fibers * Vagus (CN X) * Sympathetic fibers * Sympathetic trunks
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What is the SNS/PSNS innervation of tracheobronchial tree?
* Parasympathetic- CN X (main body of vagus provides innervation carina to alveoli. above carina is recurrent laryngeal nerve) * Motor to smooth muscle- bronchoconstrictor * Inhibitory to pulmonary vessels- vasodilator * Secretory to glands bronchial tree- secretomotor * Sympathetic- paravertebral sympathetic ganglia * Inhibitory to bronchial smooth muscle- bronchodilator * Motor to pulmonary vessels- vasoconstrictor * Inhibitory to alveolar glands of bronchial tree
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What composes the mediastinum?
* Occupied by the viscera between the pulmonary cavities * Contains all of the thoracic viscera, except the lungs * Superior mediastinum * Inferior mediastinum * Anterior mediastinum * Lymph nodes, fat and connective tissue * Middle mediastinum * Posterior mediastinum
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What is located in superior mediatsinum?
Runs from angle of lewis, up in chest cavity * Thymus * Great vessels (brachiocephalic, sup part SVC, pulmonary trunk, roots PA, arch of aorta with branches) * Ligamentum arteriosum * Vagus nerves * Relation to ligamentum arteriosum * Phrenic nerves * Cardiac plexus of nerves * Trachea * Esophagus * Thoracic duct
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What are the great vessels contained in the superior mediastinum?
* Brachiocephalic veins- receives lymph from the body, left twice as long as right * Central lines! possible to cross left--\> right * Superior part superior vena cava * Bifurcation of the pulmonary trunk * Roots of the pulmonary arteries * Arch of the aorta and major branches * Brachiocephalic trunk * Left common carotid * Left subclavian artery
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What composes the posterior mediastinum?
* Thoracic duct * Posterior mediastinal lymph nodes * Azygos, hemi-azygos, and accessory hemi-azygos veins * Thoracic sympathetic trunks * Thoracic splanchnic nerves * Thoracic aorta * Surrounded by thoracic aortic sympathetic plexus * Esophagus * Esophageal plexus * Vagus nerve
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What is located inside the middle mediastinum?
* Pericardium * Heart * Ascending aorta * Pulmonary trunk * Superior vena cava * Arch of the azygos vein * Main bronchi
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What is the pericardium?
* Double-walled membrane * Encloses the heart and roots of the great vessels * Outermost layer is the parietal layer * Reflected onto the heart and great vessels * Innermost layer is the visceral layer * Comprises the epicardium (external layer of the heart wall) * Pericardial cavity * Contains serous fluid * Frictionless movement of the heart
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What is vasculature to pericardium?
•Pericardiacophrenic artery (branch of the internal thoracic artery) and pericardiacophrenic veins
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What are the 3 layes of tissue of heart?
* Epicardium * Thin external layer formed by the visceral layer of the pericardium * Myocardium * Thick, middle layer composed of cardiac muscle * Endocardium * Thin internal layer that lines the heart and covers the valves
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The heart is a ___ \_\_\_
Double pump ## Footnote * Right side receives poorly oxygenated blood from the SVC/IVC and pumps blood to the lungs via pulmonary trunk * Left side receives highly oxygenated blood from the lungs via pulmonary veins and pumps to the body via aorta
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What is the heart's orientation in the chest?
* Apex * Anteriorly and to the left * Inferolateral part of the left ventricle * 5th intercostal space, 9 cm from median plane * Base * Posterior aspect * Left atrium * T6-T9 * Anterior surface * Right ventricle * Diaphragmatic (inferior) surface * Left ventricle and part of right ventricle * Left pulmonary surface * Left ventricle, cardiac impression of left lung * Right pulmonary surface * Mainly by right atrium
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Where is the apex of the heart? What part of heart does that consist of?
* Anteriorly and to the left * Inferolateral part of the left ventricle * 5th intercostal space, 9 cm from median plane
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Where does base of heart sit? What does it consist of?
* Posterior aspect * Left atrium * T6-T9
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What's along the anterior surface ofthe heart?
Right ventricle
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What's along the diaphragmatic surface of the heart?
Left ventricle and part of RV
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What's along left pulmonary surface?
Left ventricle, cardiac impression of left lung
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What rests along right pulmonary surface?
Mainly right atrium
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What is the right auricle?
* Closet of heart * muscular pouch can expand to increase capacity in right atrium * overlaps ascending aorta
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Features in RA?
* Right auricle * coronary sinus * sinus venarum * crista terminalis * perctinate muscle * interartrial septum
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What is the coronary sinus?
Receives blood from coronary veins (in right atrium)
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What is the sinus venarum?
Located in right atrium * Smooth area * SVC level 3rd intercostal * IVC level 5th intercostal * coronary sinus between right AV orifice and IVC orifice
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What is the crista terminalis?
Located in right atrium * ridge of muscle connected to sinus venarum
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What are the pectinate muscles?
Located in right atrium ## Footnote - forms muscular wall
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What is the interatrial septum?
Separates atrium Oval fossa (fossa ovalis), remants of fetal foramen ovale
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What is the tricuspid valve?
* Right atrioventricular (AV) valve * Guards right AV orifice (4th-5th intercostal spaces) * Three cusps **(*tricuspid plays TAPS)*** * **Anterior, septal and posterior** * Chordae tendineae attach to anterior, septal and posterior papillary muscles * Prevent valve from prolapsing during ventricular contraction (systole) * Papillary muscles contract slightly before ventricle to draw cusps together * Normal valve opening: 4-6 cm2
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What is the conus arteriosus?
On right ventricle Leads to pulmonary trunk
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Features of RV?
* Conus arteriosus * trabeculae carnae * papillary muscles * intraventricular septum * setpmarginal trabecula (moderator band)
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What is the trabeculae carnae?
Inside right ventricle Irregular muscular elevations (inside ventricle)
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What are papillary muscles?
Connect to chordae tendinae
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What is the intraventricular septum?
Separates right and left ventricle bulges into right ventricle due to increased pressure in left
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What is the septomarginal trabecula?
* (moderator band) * Carries part of the right bundle branches of the AV bundle to the anterior papillary muscle * Facilitates conduction time and allows for coordinated contraction of the anterior papillary muscle
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Characteristics of pulmonary valve?
* Semilunar valve * Apex of the conus arteriosus (3rd costal cartilage) * Three cusps * Anterior, right and left (PA go together like LR) * Pulmonary sinus just superior to valve, start of the pulmonary trunk * Blood prevents cusps from reopening during diastole * Normal valve opening: 2 cm2
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Characteristics of left atrium?
* Receives well oxygenated blood from pulmonary system * Left auricle * Overlaps pulmonary trunk * Contains pectinate muscles * Four valve-less pulmonary veins * Right and left superior and inferior * Posterior wall * Slightly thicker wall than right atrium * Left AV orifice
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What is the left auricle?
In left atrium ## Footnote * Overlaps pulmonary trunk * Contains pectinate muscles
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Characteristics of mitral valve?
* Left atrioventricular (AV) valve; Bicuspid valve * Guards left AV orifice (4th costal cartilage) * Two cusps * Anterior and posterior (remember MAP) * Chordae tendineae attach to anterior and posterior papillary muscles * Prevent valve from prolapsing during ventricular contraction (systole) * Papillary muscles contract slightly before ventricle to draw cusps together * Normal valve opening: 4-6 cm2 * •
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What does the left ventricle consist of?
Walls are 2-3 times thicker than right ventricle * Trabeculae carneae * Finer but more numerous than right ventricle * Anterior and posterior papillary muscles * Larger than those in right ventricle * Aortic vestibule * Smooth walled area leading to aortic orifice * Aortic orifice * Outflow to ascending aorta * Contains aortic valve
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Characteristics of aortic valve?
* Semilunar valve * Apex of the aortic vestibule * Three cusps * Left, right and posterior * Aortic sinus just superior to the cusps, start of the ascending aorta * Right aortic sinus contains the opening of the right coronary artery * Left aortic sinus contains the opening of the left coronary artery * Posterior aortic sinus does not contain a coronary artery * Normal valve opening: 2.5- 4.5 cm2
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At what point do you have aortic stenosis?
\<1.8 cm2 valve opening
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What valves are open in diastole
* Tricuspid and mitral
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What valves are open in systole
aortic and pulmonic
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What composes 1st heart sound?
First heart sound, S1 * Closure of the AV valves * Systole * Tricuspid valve * Near left sternal border in 5th intercostal space * Mitral valve * apex of heart in 5th intercostal space, midclavicular line
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What composes 2nd heart sound?
* Closure of semilunar valves * Early diastole * Aortic valve * 2nd intercostal space, right of sternal border * Pulmonary valve * 2nd intercostal space, left of sternal border
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What supplies blood to heart? Where do they arise from? Go to?
* Coronary arteries * Supply myocardium and epicardium * endocardium supplied by blood in chambers of heart * Embedded in fat and just deep to epicardium * arise from right and left aortic sinuses, proximal to ascending aorta, just superior to aortic valve
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What does a right dominate system mean? Left dominate?
means RCA supplies posterior interventricular branch. Left dominate means LCA supplies blood to posterior interventricular branch.
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Course of the RCA? What does it branch off to?
* Arises from right aortic sinus * Runs along coronary sulcus * SA nodal branch * supplies SA node * Right marginal branch * right border of heart * Av nodal branch * crux of heart (junction of septa and walls of four chambers) * av node * Posterior interventricular branch * left and right ventricles * interventricular septum
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What does RCA typically supply in right dominate system?
* RA * Most RV * Part LV * Part IV septum (posterior third) * SA node (60% people) * AV node (80% people)
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Where does LCA come off from? What does it divide into?
* Comes off left aortic sinus * Runs along coronary sinus * Divdes into: * anterior interventricular branch (LAD) * Interventricular setpum * anastomoses with posterior IV branch of RCA * Circumflex branch * left posterior ventricle * left marginal artery * left ventricle
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What does LCA supply?
Typically supplies * Left atrium * Most of the left ventricle * Part of the right ventricle * Most of the IV septum (anterior two-thirds) * AV bundle of conducting tissue * SA node in 40% of people
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What makes venous drainage of heart?
* Great cardiac vein * middle cardiac vein * small caridac vein * coroanry sinus * anterior cardiac veins empty into RA (or coronary sinus)
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What does the great cardiac vein follow? Empty into?
Follows LAD and circumflex Empties into coronary sinus
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What does the middle cardiac vein vollow? Empy into?
Close proximity to posterior itnerventricular branch empty into coronary sinus
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What does small cardiac vein follow?Empty into?
Follows RCA Empty into coronary sinus
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Where does coronary sinus empty into?
right atrium
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What is conduction pathway through heart?
* Sinu-atrial (SA) node * Nodal tissue that initiates and regulates heartbeat; 60-100 bpm * Deep to epicardium, junction of SVC and right atrium * Internodal tracts to depolarize atria * Atrioventricular (AV) node * Smaller collection of nodal tissue * Directs SA nodal signal to septum and initiates and regulates heartbeat (if SA node fails); 40-60 bpm * Interatrial septum near the opening of the coronary sinus * Atrioventricular bundle of HIS * Distributes signal to ventricles * Right and left bundle branches * Purkinje fibers (subendocardial branches) * Nodal tissue; if SA/AV nodes fail to fire will initiate heartbeat; 20-40 bpm
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What provides sympathetic innervation to heart?
* Superficial and deep cardiac plexuses * around bifurcation carina * Presynaptic fibers with cell bodies in the intermediolateral cell columns of the superior 5-6 thoracic segments of spinal cord * T1-T5 typically * Postsynaptic fibers with cell bodies in the cervical and superior thoracic paravertebral ganglia of the sympathetic trunks * Postsynaptic fibers end in the SA and AV nodes and close to coronary arteries * Increases heart rate and force of contraction * Dilation of coronary arteries by inhibiting their constriction
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What is parasympathetic innervation of heart?
* Superficial and deep cardiac plexuses * Parasympathetic * Presynaptic fibers of the vagus nerve (CN X) * Postsynaptic cell bodies located near SA and AV nodes and along coronary arteries * Slows heart rate and reduces force of contraction * Constricts coronary arteries­
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What causes referred chest pain?
Cardiac pain is carried on sympathetic nerve fibers back to spinal cord. These travel in DRG along with sensory from T3-T6 dermatomes on arm. The brain can not differentiate where the pain is coming from, so you also experience arm pain with chest pain.
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What is the bezold-jarisch reflex?
Stimulus: Profound hypovolemia of left ventricle and myocardial ischemia Reflex result:Bradycardia, hypotension and coronary vasodilation
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Bainbridge Reflex?
Stimulus: A full heart and venous congestion Result: Increased heart rate
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Chemoreceptor reflex?
Stimuli: hypoxia and hypercarbia Reflex result: increase MV and sympathetic tone
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Baroreceptor Reflex?
Stimuli: Acute decreased blood pressure (or acute increase blood pressure) Reflex result: Increased heart rate, increased contractility and increased SVR (opposite for increased blood pressure)
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What does the SA nodal branch perfuse?
SA node
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What does the right maginal branch perfuse in the heart?
right border of the heart
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What does the AV nodal branch of the heart perfuse?
* AV node * crux of the heart (junction of septa and walls of the four chambers)
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What does the posterior interventricular branch supply in the heart?
Left and Right ventricles Interventricular septum
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What does the anterior interventricular branch (left anterior descending) supply?
* left and right ventircles * interventricular septum * anastomoses with posterior IV branch of RCA
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What does the circumflex branch supply?
left posterior ventricle
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What does the left marginal artery supply?
left ventricle

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