Week 2 Flashcards
two components of the heart
- Electrical is heart rate
- Mechanical is stroke volume
Calculating cardiac output
- One way is to look at stroke volume and heart rate.
- increases in stroke volume or heart rate allows for an increase in cardiac output
What things can regulate stroke volume
Preload, afterload, and contractility
Preload
- what does it deal with?
- what dertermines it?
- It has to deal with stretch and is your end diastolic volume (EDV)
- Venous return
- this is volume
Afterload
- what is it?
- It’s the pressure that the heart/or chamber has to pump against in order to allow blood to move from one area to the next
- Afterload is PRESSURE
Contractility
- what is it
- hat effects it?
- How hard the heart pumps
- calcium cycling to allow for the force of contraction, independent of EDV
Cardiac cycle
- what does blood enter?
- what does blood come back through?
- flow
- arteries
- veins
- right atrium –> right ventricle –> pulmonary arteries –> pulmonary capillaries –> pulmonary veins –> left atria –> left ventricle –> aorta
how do we get blood to move from one area to the next?
High pressure to low pressure
Flow
change in pressure/resistance
Right side of heart CO
(mean pulmonary arterial pressure − left atrial pressure) / (pulmonary vascular resistance)
Left side of heart CO
(mean arterial pressure − right atrial pressure) / (systemic vascular resistance)
Wiggers diagram
- left atrial pressure
- left ventricle pressure
- aortic pressure
isovolumic contraction
- what is happening
- why?
- The valves are closed, the volume is constant but the pressure is increased
- the pressure needs to exceed the pressure of where the blood needs to go– in left ventricle it needs to increase to greater than pressure in aorta
as the blood is flowing out of the ventricle, what’s going to happen to the pressure in the ventricle compared to that of the aorta
- the pressure will decrease and then the aortic valve will close
isovolumic relaxation
- what is happening
- why?
- reducing pressure in comparison to the atria, because the atria has lower pressure.
- in order to have ventricular filling, the atria need to be a greater pressure than that of the ventricles.
Stroke volume
- the amount of blood ejected in one pump
- SV = EDV - ESV
Ejection fraction
- what is it?
- formula
- normal
- EF for heart failure
- tells you about the efficiency of the pump, the function of the ventricles
- EF = SV/EDV
- Normal ejection fraction is 50-60%
- Ejection fraction of 20% indicates heart failure and that your ventricles aren’t pumping as efficiently as they should
ECG correlation; what does it correspond to with electrical and mechnical function of heart
- P wave
- QRS complex
- T wave
- P wave: correlates in response to atrial depolarization, which correlates in response to atrial contraction
- QRS complex: ventricular depolarization; it’s seen right in front of ventricular contraction
- T wave: Ventricular repolarization is right before ventricular relaxation
Heart Sounds
- S1: Corresponds to mitral valve and tricuspid valve closing
- S2: Corresponds to the aortic and pulmonic valve closing
Identify and explain the cause of the splitting of S2
- During inspiration you have an increase in the intrathoracic pressure, and there’s more volume of blood in the pulmonary vessel, and so your diastolic pressure back to the right side of the heart is altered and your pulmonic valve shuts a little later than your aortic valve, and the reason your aortic valve shuts a little quicker is because there’s less filling and less venous return, so the cycle is a little quicker and so the valve will close a little quicker than the pulmonic valve
Varying widening of S2
- cause? dx?
- how?
- Delayed closure of pulmonic valve
- Pulmonic valve stenosis
- RBBB: You have slow conduction on right side of heart, which delays that closure of pulmonic valve
- Pulmonary hypertension: Right ventricle has to try and exceed pulmonic artery
Fixed splitting of S2
- causes, how?
- Atrial septal defects can cause this: There is shunting of blood from the left to the right side of the heart, and you’re changing those volumes
Paradoxical splitting
- what happens
- causes
- There’s delayed closure of aortic valve
- LBBB and Aortic stenosis
S4
- cause
- why?
- Left ventricle stiffening
- When the atria is pumping into a stiff LV, the contraction of the atria actually causes an S4 sound
S3
- cause
- Tells us that there’s a dilated LV
What causes the ejection click and OS (opening snap)
- They’re occurring when the valves open
- Stenosis can cause a snap or click
How would you categorize, the different causes (etiologies) of mitral valve regurgitation
- Primary vs Secondary
- Acute vs. Chronic
Primary vs secondary
- primary: direct valvular issue being the root cause– structural problem
- secondary: kind of disease that then causes valvular disease– functional problem
mitral valve prolapse
- frequency
- causes
- what is happening?
- abnormality of the valve
- what happens to endothelial cells of the valve?
- what you expect to find histologically
- staining
- what happens to valve chronically
- murmur?
- most common
- Infectious Endocarditis, Rheumatic Fever
- with every systolic contraction, you get a regurgitant volume going back into atria, so with every contraction some of that volume is going back into the atrium.
- when the left ventricle contracts because of the pressure gradient that mitral valve closes, but the mitral valve is too lax, it balloons back and it actually snaps & hits the wall or the endocardium of the left atrium, when it does that it causes damage
- first the endothelial cells are denuded and then all of these cytokines & all of these chemicals that are released causing inflammatory cells to come and there is going to be reparative process.
- Myxoid Degeneration; Increased deposition of proteoglycans replacing collagen in the fibrous layer
- Tri-chrome Stain, with proteoglycan being either blue or green
- annulus of valves will be calcified
- yes, holosystolic murmur between s1 and s2
Is connective tissue disorder primary or secondary, specifically marfans?
- In marfans the Chordae Tendinea are STRUCTURAL abnormal so it would be primary.
If the patient has mitral valve regurgitation, how would this alter the Wiggers Diagram?
- Increase in atrial pressure during systole
Effects of acute episode of mitral valve prolapse
- why?
- The left atrium will have blood pushed back into it which will increase the volume and the pressure and since it is not yet compliant the extra volume will start to back into the lungs and cause pulmonary edema
- pulmonary edema is caused by increased hydrostatic pressure on the venous side which prevents more fluid from being able to be absorbed on the venous end of the pulmonary circuit.
Effect of chronic mitral valve prolapse
- what happens when left untreated?
The atria start to become compliant to the extra volume causing an increase in the size of the atria. Since the artia can hold more they now push more fluid into the ventricle and the ventricle has to become compliant to hold that fluid so the ventricle enlarges but cannot pump as well because the muscle is hypertrophic
- chronic heart failure
Murmur for mitral valve prolapse
- kind
- when
- holosystolic
- any time the ventricular pressure is higher than the atrial, so usually between s1 and s2
Aortic Stenosis
- what is it?
- causes?
- most common? where?
- effects?
- etiologies/risk factors?
- congenital risks
- what happens to the wiggers diagram?
- chronically?
- murmur?
- narrowing of aortic valve
- calcification, congenital bicuspid disease, or rheumatic fever
- calcification; interior surface of the valve leaflets
- decrease in flexibility of the valve and so it does not open or close well
- age, and hyperlipidemia
- develop aortic stenosis at an earlier age because of the increase in sheer forces
- increase pressure, in the left ventricle cause the blood cannot get into the aorta because of that stiff valve so you are increasing pressure which then forces
- concentric hypertrophy which will cause thick wall with smaller chamber–> not as much filling
- Systolic Murmur = Cresendo - Decresendo; a little after S1
Side effects of chronic aortic stenosis
- exertional syncope
- angina
- exertional syncope because during exercise your body needs more blood and the heart cannot keep up, adding to that there is vasodilation in skeletal muscle which deacreased venous return and so pre-load decreases so there is even less blood in the left ventricle being pushed out when there is high demand for oxygen
- angina: coronary arteries have less blood flow so you have an imbalance in myocardial supply & demand
chronotropy
- heart rate
inotropy
- contractility
MOA of drugs that increase inotropy
- Target L-type Ca2+ channels
- ryanodine receptors (RyR2)
- phospholamban
- troponin
- L-type Ca2+ channels: activating them to allow more Ca2+ influx into the cell which will help facilitates contraction
- ryanodine receptors (RyR2) on the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR): allow for release of SR Ca2+ stores through the calcium-induced calcium release mechanism –> Calcium release into the cytosol facilitates muscle contraction because Ca2+ is now available to bind troponin to allow for cross-bridge formation between actin and myosin.
- inhibit phospholamban a SERCA inhibitorso that
SERCA ican increase Ca2+ reuptake into the SR –> important so Ca2+ can cycle adequately to allow for muscle relaxation (Ca2+ reload into SR) and subsequent contractions (Ca2+ release from SR) of the beating heart - troponin directly by phosphorylating it to facilitate quick bind (better contraction) and release (better relaxation) of Ca2+
how we can affect cardiac output physiologically?
- increase heart rate
- increase stroke volume
How can we increase HR?
With sympathetics (increase HR) and parasympathetics (decrease HR
How can we increase SV?
- By changing preload, contractility, and/or afterload
Cardiac Output
- what is on the graph?
- y= muscle tension and x= muscle length