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Heart
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Basic info
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Weight
- M:250:300
- F:200-250
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Wall thickness
- RV:3-5 mm
- LV:10-15
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Layers
- Epicardium
- Myocardium
- Endocardium
- Pericardium
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Valves
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Atrioventricular Valves
- Closed During Sytole
- First Heart Sound
- Mitral/Tricupsid
- Have Cordae tendineae
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Semilunar Valves
- Open During Styole
- 2nd Hrt sound
- Aortic/Pulmonary
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Blood Supply
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LCA
- LCrfA
- LAD
- RCA
- Most flow during Diastole
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Disease
-
Heart
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Congestive Heart Failure
- Types and Causes
- Systolic dysfuction
- MI
- Cardiogenic shock
- Hypertension
- Volume Overload
- Cardiomyopathy
- Dilated Heart
- Diastolic dysfunction
- Hypertensive Heart Disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic
- Amyloidosis
- Constrictive Pericarditis
- Tamponade
- Chamber failure
- Left Sided
- Causes
- Systemic Hypertension
- Mitral/Aortic valve disease
- Ischemic Heart Disease
- Features
- Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
- Orthopnea
- Dyspnea
- Right sided
- Left Sided Failure
- Cor Pulmonale (primary lung disease)
- Compensatory Mechanisms
- Myocardial Hypertrophy
- Catecholamine stimulation
- Concentric hypertrophy
- Eccentric hypertrophy
- Myocardial dilation
- Frank Starlings law
- Dilation to increase contraction force
- Compensated Heart Failure
- Decompensated Heart Failure
- Even at rest the heart cant perfuse sufficently for needs
- Systemic Edema
- Foward Heart Failure
- Decreased CO
- Renal Hypoperfusion
- RAS activation
- Na+/ H2O retention
- Backward failure
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Right Sided failure
- Systemic Venous congestion
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Ischemic Heart Disease
- Syndromes
- Angina pectoris
- Types
- Typical
- Most Common
- Physical activity/
emotional excitement
- Fixed critical stenosis
- Relieved by rest/Vasodialators
- Prinzmetal
- Occurs at rest
- ST segement elevation
- Coronary artery Spasm
- Relieved by Vasodialators
- Unstable
- Crescendo pain
- Occurs at rest
- AMI
- Characteristics
- 5:1 M 45-55
2:1 M 55-80
1:1 80+
- Other 10% causes
- Vasospasm
- Emboli
- Left sided mural thrombus
- Transmural infarcts
- More serious
- Subendocardial
- Can occure with prolonged hypotension
- Effects
- Myocardial function
- Loss of contractility (2 mins)
- Loss of ATP from (0-40 mins)
- Irreversible injury (20-40 mins)
- Microvascular injury (1hr+)
- Gross- Micro Changes
- Dark Mottling (4-24hrs)
- Wavy fibers (1-4hrs)
- Early Coagulation Necrosis (4-12hrs)
- Early PMNs/ Coaug Necr/Contraction bands (12-24)
- Mottling (1-3 days)
- PMNs
- Central softening/ (3-7 days)
Hyperemic border
- Early Macs / Myofibers destruction
- Maximum softening (7-10 days)
- Phago/ Hella macs
- Red/Grey depressed border (10-14 days)
- Granulation tissue form
- Firm/Grey, Scarring (2-8 wks)
- More collagen than cells
- Scarring (2 mths+)
- Dense collagenous scar
- Not relieved by vasodilators
- Complications
- Arrhythmias (75% - 90%)
- Papillary muscle dysfunction
- Rupture
- Wall
- Septum
- Acute Heart Failure
- Mural Thrombi
- Ventricular aneurysms
- Dressler's syndrome
- Sudden Cardiac Death
- Chronic Ischemic Heart disease
- Causes
- Anemia
- Hypoxemia
- Hypotension
- Watershed infarct of brain
- Circumflex infarct of heart
- Increased cardiac demand
- Mechanisms
- Fixed Coronary obstruction
- Critical stenosis
- 70% of 1 or more major coronaries
- Collaterals
- When insufficent leads to disease
- Acute plaque changes
- Rupture/Ulveration
- Hemorrhage
- Initating event
- Types
- Stable
- Unstable
- Thin fibrous cap
- Rich lipid and inflammatory cell core
- Low SMC
- Eccentric
- Cornary intraluminal thrombosis
- Superimposed due to acute plaque changes
- Complete occulsion
- Vasoconstriction
- Contributes to acute plaque changes
- Stimulated by
- increase Thromboxane A2
- increase Endothelin
- Decrease NO
- A1 Activation
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Blood Vessels
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Layers
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Intima
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Endothelial cells
- Function
- Maintain permeablity
- Release Anti/Pro thrombic factors
- Modulate flow
- NO/ Endothelin
- Inflammatory/Immunity regulation
- IL-1
- IL-6
- VCAM1/ ICAM1
- Regulate Cell Growth
- PDGF
- TGF-Beta
- Fibroblast Prolif
- Oxidize LDLs
- Lipids are cytotoxic to endothelium
- Dysfunction
- Stimulation
- Activation
- gene expression/protein synth
- Impaired vasodilation/ anti inflammatory
- Release prothrombin factors
- Activators
- Cytokines
- Bacterial products
- Hypertension
- Viruses
- MHC molecues
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Media
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Smooth Muscle Cells
- Function
- Vaso- constriction/dialtion
- Change function upon intima migration
- Elaborate ECM
- Make Fatty Streak to Fibrofatty atheroma
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Adventitia
- Connective Tissue
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Diseases
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Narrowing
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Arteriosclerosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Other associated risk
- homocystenemia
- ROS damage
- Folate (B-9) or Colbamine (B-12) defiency
- Lipoprotein (a)
- Persistent prothombic events
- High PA-1 inhibitor
- C reactive protien
- Lack of exercise
- Type A personality
- Postmenopausal estrogen deficiency
- High carb diet
- Chlamydia pneumoniae
- Major Risk Factors
- Hyperlipidemia
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Cigarette smoking
- Diabetes mellitus
- AS induced gangrene
- Hypertension
- More impotant after age 45
- Pathogensis
- Chronic inflammatory response to intima/ Endothliel injury
- Macrophages
- Foam Cells
- TNF
- Progression
- Fatty Dots
- Fatty Streaks
- Atherosclerotic plaque
- Hyper thrombotic
- Superimposed thrombis
- Components
- Cells
- ECM
- Intra/extracellular lipids
- Fibrin Cap
- Rupture
- Thickness of Cap
- Presence of inflammatory cells
- Hemodynamic Stress
- Size of nectrocic plaque core
- Complications
- Stable plaque
- Unstable
- Clinical mainfestations
- Coronary Heart Disease
- AMI
- Angina
- Stable
- Unstable
- CHF
- Sudden Cardiac Death
- AAA
- Cerebreal vascular disease
- Stroke
- TIA
- Chronic ischemic encephalopathy
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Ischemic Bowel Disease
- Gangrene
- Locations
- 1. Distal abdominal Aorta
- 2. Coronary Arteries
- 3. Thoracic Aorta, Femoral, Popliteal arteries
- Internal Carotid
- Circle of Willis
- Medial Calcific Sclerosis
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Hyaline
- Chronic Benign HTN
- Plasma protein leakage
- Hyperplastic
- Severe Chronic HTN
- Response to trauma
- Necrotizing Arteritiolitis
- Fibrinoid Necrosis
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Hypertension
- Types
- Stage I (140-159/90-99)
- Stage II (160/100)
- Malignant (210/120)
- End organ failure
- Regulation/ Arterioles
- Factors
- Endocrine
- Neural
- Cardiac
- Blood Volume
- Complications
- Nephrosclerosis-Kidney
- Eyes- HTN retinopahty
- Brain- infarction/haemorrhage
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Weakening
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Anyeurms
- Weakness of Media
- Congenital
- Marfan's syndrome
- Berry aneuryms
- Acquired Weakness
- Mycotic (infective)
- Common sites
- Aorta
- Cerebral vessels
- Renal
- Mesenteric
- Splenic
- Causes
- Endocarditis
- TB/Bacterial Abscess
- Sepsis
- Salmonella Gastroenteritises/ Aorta
- Syphilis
- Tertiary stage
- Obliterative endarteritis Vaso Vasorum
- Aorta Arch
- Valve ring dialation
- Valvular insufficiency /
most commone cause death
- Massive left vent hypertrophy
- Valvular Regurgation
- Tree bark appearance in intima
- Complications
- Encroachment Mediastinum
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve
- Difficulty Swallowing
- Persistent Cough
- Respiratory difficulties
- Iatrogenic (disease due to medical treatment)
- Atherosclerosis
- Abdominal aorta
- Age 50 and older
- Distal to renal arteries/Proximal to bifurcation
- Abdominal mass
- Impingement on adjacent structures
- Urter
- Erosion of verebrea
- Complications
- Aysmptomatic
- Occlusion of branch vessels
- Renal/Mesenteric/Vertebral
- Emboli
- Rupture
- Chances increase as size of increases
- Large (5cm))-Prostehtic grafts
- Into retroperitoneal space
- Timing of intervention
- 5% death rate unruptured
- Over 50% death rate ruptured
- Types
- True
- Fusiform
- Saccular
- False/Pseudoaneurysm
- Hematoma
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Aortic Dissection
- Characteristics
- Intimal tear
- ascending aorta
- First two layers
- Execruting radiating back pain
- Causes
- Ruptures
- Men, 40-60
- Hypertension
- Arterial cannulation
- Pregnancy
- Complications
- Rupture
- Lumen
- "Double bareled" aorta
- Adventia
- Hemorrhage
- Pericardial
- Pleural
- Peritoneal
- Compress spinal ateries
- Transverse myelitis
- Tamponade
- MI
- Types
- Type A
- Most common/
Dangerous
- Ascending portion/
Ascending + Descending
- Type B
- Beginning distal subclavian
- Retrograde
- Aortic Root
- disrupt Aortic Valvular apparatus
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Inflammatory disorders
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Vasculitis
- Types
- Large-Medium
- Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis
- Lead to blindness
- Granulomatous inflam of intima/ inner media
- Temporal artery/ Head
- Fragmentation of internal elastic lamina
- Elevated ESR (blood sed-rate)
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Elastin of Large Arteries
- 50 and above, M:F 1:1
- Papaular nodular temporal artery
- Therapeutic trail of steroids
- Takayasu arteritis
- Granulomatous vasculitis(media) w/ obliteration of lumen
- Arch of Aorta
- great vessels of arch
- Pulmonary/coronary/Renal arteries
- Females over 40
- Blindness
- Upper limp pulselessness, coldness, and numbness
- Low BP Upper limbs
- Dizziness
- Hemiparesis to focal weakness
- Patchy necrosis
- Fibrosis involving all layers
- Medium to Small
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Characteristics
- Systemic
- Spares pulmonary circulation
- Doesn't involve Arterioles, Caps, and Vens (mainly medium)
- No glomerulonephritis
- 1) Kidney, 2) Heart, 3) Liver, and then 4) GI
- Branching points/ Bifurcations
- Temporal Variability
- Acute Stage
- Transmural inflammation
- Inner half fibrinoid necrosis
- Later Stage
- Fibrosis replacement of transmural inflmmation
- Transmural necrotizing inflammation
- Young Adults
- Complications
- Ulcerations
- Infarcts
- Atrophy
- Hemorrhages
- Burgers Disease/Thromboangitis obliterans
- Characteristics
- Cigarette smoking
- Hypersenstivity reaction to tobacco
- Genetic influences
- Segmental, thrombosing, acute/chronic inflammation
- Thrombosis has microabscesses
- Granulomatis formation
- Tibial/Radial arteries
- extending to V/N
- Ulcerations of fingers and toes
- Mainly males
- Wegners Granulotomous
- Classic Triad
- Acute Necrotizing Granulomas of URT and LRT
- Focal necrotizing or granulomatous vasculitis
- Mainly in lungs
- Focal or Necrotizing Renal Disease
- Crescentic Glomerulitis
- Limited Wegners Granulotomous
- No renal involvement but other two classic symptoms
- Characteristics
- M > F around 40
- Persistent pneumonitis
- Bilateral nodular and cavitar infiltrates
- Chronic sinusitis
- Mucosal ulcerations of nasalpharynx
- Untreated- Death 1yr
- All vessels
- Kawasaki Syndrome/Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
- Characteristics
- Often affecting coronary arteries
- Children
- Japanese epidemic
- Autoantibodies against endothelium and SMC
- Treat with IVIG
- Oversaturate neutrophil Fc receptor
- Increase AB clearance
- Aneuryms, MI, and thrombosis in children
- Severe segmental transmural necrotizing destruction
- Causes
- Immunological
- Type III
- Hep B induced
- Drug induced
- SLE/Rheumatoid arthritis
- Type II
- Goodpasture syndrome
- ANCA
- c-ANCA
- p-ANCA
- Microcropic Polyangiitis
- Necrotizing vasculitis
- PAN, but involves small vessels
- Hematuria
- Hemoptysis
- No Temporal Variability in lesions
- Churg-Strauss
- Esonophil mediated
- Type IV
- Graft rejection
- Direct infection
- Rickettsia
- Unknown
- Neoplasms