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Loss of isotonic fluid
(urine, hemorrhage, diarrhea/vomiting)
Loss of ECV
Loss of hypotonic fluid
(sweating, Diabetes insipidus)
Loss of ECV and ICV
(RBCs shrink)
Gain of hypotonic fluid
(drinking water)
Gain of ICV and ECV
(RBCs swell)
Infusion of hypotonic fluid
Gain of ICV and ECV
(RBCs swell)
Infusion of isotonic saline
Gain of ECV only
(no effect on RBCs size, used to increase BP)
Infusion of hypertonic saline
Loss of ICV, Gain of ECV
(RBCs shrink)
Loss of sodium
(Hypertonic loss)
Loss of ECV, Gain of ICV
(RBCs grow)
The SA and AV node are supply but what artery?
Right coronary Artery (RCA)
Most common site of coronary occlusion
Left anterior descending artery (LAD)
Coronary artery that supplies posterior left ventricle
circumflex artery (CFX)
Coronary artery that supplies apex and anterior interventricular septum
Left anterior descending artery (LAD)
Coronary artery that supplies posterior septum
Posterior descending/interventricular artery (PD)
Coronary artery that supplies right ventricle
acute marginal artery
The most posterior chamber of the heart
Left atrium
The most anterior chamber of the heart
Right ventricle
Cardiac output formula
rate of O2 consumption/
(arterial O2 content - venous O2 content)
Mean arterial pressure (MAP) formula
cardiac output x TPR

(2/3 diastolic pressure + 1/3 systolic)
Stroke volume affected by what?
Preload, Afterload, contractility
Contractility (and Stoke Volume) increases with what?
- catecholamines

- Digitalis
Contractility (and Stroke Volume) decreases with what?
- Beta1-blockers

- Ca+ channel blockers

- Acidosis

- Hypoxia/Hypercapnia(CO2)
Venodilators (ie. NO) decrease what?
decreases preload
Vasodilators (ie Hydralazine) decrease what?
decrease afterload
Examples of Right-to-left shunts that causes (early cyanosis "blue babies")
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of great vessels
- Truncus arteriosus
- Tricuspid atresia
- Total anomalous pulmonary trunk and aorta (TAPVR)
Examples of Left-to-right shunts that causes (late cyanosis "blue kids
- VSD
- ASD
- PDA
Uncorrected VSD, ASD, or PDA can lead to?
Eisenmenger's syndrome

-reversal of L->R to R->L
Clinical finds of Tetralogy of Fallot
PROVe

1- Pulmonary stenosis
2- Right Ventricular hypertrophy
3- Overriding aorta
4- VSD

(Pt will have boot shape heart; cyanotic spells)
Clinical finds of D-transposition of great vessels
- aorta leaves right ventricle (anterior)

-pulmory trunks leaves left ventricle (posterior)

-Pt must have: VSD, PDA, or patent ovale for life
Coarctation of the aorta type?

- associate w/Turner's
- proximal to insertion of ductus arteriosus
Infantile type
Coarctation of the aorta type?

- associated w/notching of the ribs
- distal to insertion of ductus arteriosus
Adult type
Closes PDA
Indomethacin
Keeps PDA open
Misoprostol
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: Tetralogy of Fallot; truncus arteriosus
- Disorder: ?
DiGeorge's (22q11)
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: ASD, VSD, AV septal defect (endocardial cushion defects)
- Disorder: ?
Down Syndrome
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: PDA
- Disorder: ?
Congenital rubella
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: Coarctation of aorta
- Disorder: ?
Turner's
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: Aortic insufficiency; Dissection of Aorta
- Disorder: ?
Marfan's Syndrome
Cogenital cardiac defect association

- Defect: Transposition of great vessels
- Disorder: ?
Infant of a diabetic mother
Primary HTN (90%) is related to?
increase Cardiac output or increase TPR
Secondary HTN (10%) is related to?
renal disease
Arteriosclerosis

- calcification of the media (especially radial or ulnar)
- benign; "pipestem"
- do not obstruct flow
Monckeberg
Arteriosclerosis

- Hyaline thickening
- seen in HTN and diabetes
- Hyperplastic- "onion skinning" in malignant HTN
ArteriOlOsclerosis
Arteriosclerosis

- Fibrous plaques and atheromas from in the intima of arteries
ATHERosclerosis
Ischemic heart disease

- ST depression in ECG
- pain on exertion
- relieved by nitrate
Stable Angina
Ischemic heart disease

- occurs at rest 2nd to coronary artery spasm
- ST elevation on ECG
Prinzmetal's variant angina
Ischemic heart disease

- thrombosis but no necrosis
- ST depression on ECG
- nitrates don't work
- pain without exertion
Unstable Angina
Ischemic heart disease

- acute thrombosis due to atherosclerosis
- results in myocyte necrosis
- LDA most common site; increase troponin
myocardial infarction (MI)
Ischemic heart disease

- death within 1 hour of onset
- commonly due to a lethal arrhythmia
Sudden cardiac death
Ischemic heart disease

- progressive onset of CHF over many years
- due to myocardial damage
Chronic ischemic heart disease
Chest pain that worsens by sitting up or leaning forward
Pericarditis
Evolution of MI- time frame?

- contraction bands
- earl coagulative necrosis
- neutrophil emigration
First Day
Evolution of MI- risk?

- First Day
- contraction bands
- earl coagulative necrosis
- neutrophil emigration
Evolution of MI- time frame?

- tissue surrounding infarct shows acute inflammation
- increased neutrophil emigration
- dilated vessels (hyperemia)
- muscle show extensive coagulative necrosis
2-4 days
Evolution of MI- risk?

- 2-4 days
- tissue surrounding infarct shows acute inflammation

- increased neutrophil emigration

- dilated vessels (hyperemia)

- muscle show extensive coagulative necrosis
Evolution of MI- time frame?

- risk for free wall rupture
- tamponade
- papillary muscle rupture
- interventricular septal rupture
- dues to macrophages degrading structural components
5-10 days
Evolution of MI- risk?

- 5-10 days
- risk for free wall rupture

- tamponade

- papillary muscle rupture

- interventricular septal rupture

- dues to macrophages degrading structural components
Evolution of MI- time frame?

- Risk for ventricular aneurysm
- contraction scar complete
7 weeks
Evolution of MI- risk?

- 7 weeks
- Risk for ventricular aneurysm

- contraction scar complete
Diagnosis of MI

- Gold standard in the first 6 hours
ECG
Diagnosis of MI

- rises after 4 hour and is elevated for 7-10 days
- most specific protein marker
Troponin I
Diagnosis of MI

- predominantly found in myocardium but is also release in skeletal muscle
- useful in diagnosing reinfarction on top of acute MI
- seen for 3 days
CK-MB
Diagnosis of MI

- nonspecific
- can be found in cardiac, liver, and skeletal muscle
- if cardiac no ALT will be seen
AST
ECG diagnosis of MI

Leads: V1-V4

Location: ?
Anterior wall
ECG diagnosis of MI

Leads: V1-V2

Location: ?
Anteroseptal
ECG diagnosis of MI

Leads: V4-V6

Location: ?
Anterolateral
ECG diagnosis of MI

Leads: I & aVL

Location: ?
Lateral wall
ECG diagnosis of MI

Leads: II, III, & aVF

Location: ?
Inferior wall
MI complication

- important cause of death before reaching the hospital
- common in first 3 days
Cardiac arrhythmia
MI complication

- autoimmune phenomenon
- results in fibrinous pericarditis
- several weeks post-MI
Dressler syndrome
Cardiomyopathy
-Dilated (congestive) "Systolic Heart failure"

Cause: ?
- Alcohol abuse
- wet Beriberi
- Coxsackie B
- Cocaine
- Chagas'
- Doxorubicin
- Hemochromatosis
Cardiomyopathy
-Findings: S3

Myopathy: ?
Dilated (congestive) "Systolic Heart failure"
Cardiomyopathy
-Hypertrophic "Diastolic Heart failure"

Cause: ?
- IV septum too close to mitral valve
- familial; autosomal dominant
- friedreich's ataxia
- sudden death in athletes
Cardiomyopathy
-Findings: S4, apical impulses, systolic murmur

Myopathy: ?
Hypertrophic "Diastolic Heart failure"
Treatment for Hypertrophic "Diastolic Heart failure"
beta-blockers & Ca+ channel blockers
Cardiomyopathy
-Restrictive/obliterative "Diastolic Heart failure"

Cause: ?
- sarcoidosis
- amyloidosis
- fibrosis
- seen w/ rheumatoid arthritis
- Loffler's syndrome
Presence of hemosiderin-laden macrophages are known as
Heart failure cell (in the lung)
Round white spots on the retina surrounded by hemorrhage
Roth's spots
Roth spots are a sign of
Endocarditis
Tender raised lesion on finger or toe pads are know as
Osler's nodes
Osler's nodes are a sign of
Endocarditis
Small erythematous lesion on palm or sole is
Janeway lesion
Janeway lesions is a sign of
Endocarditis
The main signs of Endocarditis
- Fever
- new murmur
- Janeway lesions
- splinter hemorrhages
Bacterial endocarditis

- large vegetations on previously normal valves
- rapid on set
- high virulence
Acute- S. aureus
Bacterial endocarditis

- smaller vegetation on conenitally abnormal or disease valves
- after dental procedure
- slow on set
- low virulence
Subacute- Strep. viridans
Bacterial endocarditis

- present in Pts w/colon cancer
S. bovis
Bacterial endocarditis

- present on prosthetic valves
S. epidermidis
Bacterial endocarditis

- most common valve involved
Mitral
Bacterial endocarditis

- valve associated with IV drug absue
Tricuspid
- Verrucous (wart-like)
- Sterile vegetations located on both side of the valve
- associated with mitral regurgitation
Libman-Sacks
Cause of Libman-Sacks
SLE (lupus)
Organism that causes Rheumatic heart disease
beta-hemolytic strep. "Group A"

(S pyogenes)
Underlying pathology of Rheumatic heart disease
Antibodies to M-protein
(type II hypersensitivity)
Elevated in Rheumatic heart disease
ASO titers
Granuloma with giant cells seen in Rheumatic heart disease
Aschoff bodies
Activated histiocytes seen in Rheumatic heart disease
Anitschkow cells
-Exaggerated decrease amplitude of pulse during inspiration

- seen in cardiac tamponade, asthma, sleep apnea, pericarditis, and croup
Pulsus paradoxus
- calcification of the aortic root and ascending aortic arch

- tree bark appearance

- dilation of the aorta and valve ring
Syphilitic heart disease

(tertiary)
Most common site of a Myxoma
Left atrium
- associated with multiple syncopal episodes
- "ball-valve" obstruction
- in left atrium
Myxoma
Most frequent cardiac tumor in children
Rhabdomyomas
Rhabdomyomas are frequently associated with?
Tuberous sclerosis
Metastasis to the heart is most common from?
Melanoma & lymphoma
Increase in jugular venous pressure on inspiration
Kussmaul's sign
Treatment for Raynaud's disease
Nifedipine (Ca+ channel blocker)
Causes of Raynaud's phenomenon
- SLE
- CREST
- Scleroderma
- Buerger's
- Necrotizing vasculitis
- necrotizing granulomas in upper and lower respiratory
- necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Wegener's granulomatosis
Treatment for Wegener's granulomatosis
Cyclophosphamide and corticosteroids
Vasculitides that is ike Wegener's but p-ANCA
Microscopic polyangiitis
- Vasculitis limited to kidney
- pauci-immune= paucity of antibodies
Primary pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis
- granulomatous vasculitis with eosinophilia
- presents w/ asthma, sinusitis, skin lesions, and wrist/foot drop
Churg-Strauss syndrome
- port-wine stain on face (nevus flammeus)
- leptomeningeal angiomatosis (intracerebral AVM)
- seizures
- early- onset glaucome
Sturge-Weber disease
- rash on buttocks and legs (palpable purpura)
- arthralgia (joint pain)
- intestinal hemorrhage, Abdominal pain
- follows URIs and associated w/IgA nephropathy
- Most common childhood systemic vasculitis
Henoch-Schonlein
- intermittent claudication
- superficial nodular phlebitis
- cold sensitivity (Raynauds)
- seen in heavy smokers
Buerger's
(Thromboangiitis obliterans)
- strawberry tongue; lymphadenitis
- may develop coronary aneurysms
- self-limiting necrotizing vasculitis in infants/child
Kawasaki disease
- immune complex-mediated transmural vasculitis w/fibrinoid necrosis
- fever, weight loss, malaise
- Multiple aneurysms; Hep B+
Polyarteritis nodosa
- granulomatous thickening of aortic arch
- associated w/ increase ESR
- weak pulse "pulseless disease"
Takayasu's arteritis
- vasculitis usually affecting carotid artery
- granulomatous inflammation
- jaw claudication, unilateral headache, impaired vision
- associated w/elderly females & increased ESR
Temporal arteritis
(giant cell arteritis)
Vascular tumor

- benign capillary hemangioma of infancy;
- grows with child; than spontaneously regress
Strawberry hemangioma
Vascular tumor

- benign capillary hemangioma of the elderly
- does not regress
Cherry hemangioma
Vascular tumor

- polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed
- associated w/trauma and pregnancy
Pyogenic granuloma
Vascular tumor

- Cavernous lymphangioma of the neck
- associated w/Turner's
Cystic hygroma
Vascular tumor

- Benign, painful, red-blue tumor under fingernails
- arises from modified smooth muscle cells of glomus body
Glomus tumor
Vascular tumor

- Benign capillary skin papules found in AIDS Pts
- often mistake for Kaposi's
Bacillary angiomatosis
Vascular tumor

- High lethal malignancy of the liver
- associated w/vinyl chloride, arsenic, and ThO2 (thorotrast)
Angiosarcoma
Organism that cause Bacillary angiomatosis
Bartonella henselae
Vascular tumor

- Lymphatic malignancy associated w/persistent lymphedema
-post-radical mastectomy
Lymphangiosarcoma
Vascular tumor

- Endothelial malignancy of the skin associated with HHV-8 and HIV
- often mistaken as bacillary angiomatosis
Kaposi's sarcoma
Accounts for most of the total peripheral resistance (TPR)
Arterioles
Cardiac Cycle (phase)

-period of highest O2 consumption
-period between mitral valve closure and aortic valve opening
Isovolumetric contaction
Cardiac Cycle (phase)

-period between aortic opening and closing
Systolic ejection
Cardiac Cycle (phase)

- period between aortic valve closing and mitral valve opening
Isovolumetric relaxation
Cardiac Cycle (phase)

-period just after mitral valve opens
Rapid filling
Cardiac Cycle (phase)

-period just before mitral valve closes
Reduced filling
Cardiac Cycle (sound)

- loudest at mitral area
- mitral and tricuspid valve closure
S1
Cardiac Cycle (sound)

- loudest at the left sternal border
- aortic and pulmonary valve closure
S2
Cardiac Cycle (sound)

- in early diastole during rapid ventricular filling phase
- associated w.increase filling pressures
- more common in dilated ventricles
S3
S3 is normal when heard in
- Child
- pregnant women
- post-MI
Cardiac Cycle (sound)

- heard in late diastole
- increased atrial pressure
- left atrium must push against stiff LV wall
- associated w/ventricular hypertrophy
S4 (atrial kick)
S2 splitting

- wide splitting
- Associated with: ?
- Pulmonic stenosis

- Right bundle branch block
S2 splitting

- Fixed splitting
- Associated with: ?
- ASD
S2 splitting

- Paradoxical splitting
- Associated with: ?
- Aortic stenosis

- Left bundle branch block
Right-sided heart sounds increase with?
Inspiration
Left-sided heart sounds increase with?
Expiration and increased Carbon monoxide
Holosystolic (pansystolic), high-pitched "blowing murmur"
Mitral/tricuspid regurgitation
Heart murmur

- loudest at apex
- radiates toward axilla
Mitral regurgitation
What will enhance a mitral regurgitation?
maneuvers that increase TPR (squatting/hand grip)
Causes of mitral regurgitation?
- ischemic heart disease
- mitral valve prolapse
- left ventricular dilaticulation
Heart murmur

- radiates to the right sternal border
- enhanced by (inspiration) maneuvers that increase RA return
Tricuspid regurgitation
Causes of tricuspid regurgitation?
- RV dilation
- endocarditis

"Rheumatic fever can cause both"
Crescendo-decrescendo systolic ejection murmur following ejection click
Aortic stenosis
Heart murmur

- Radiates to carotids/apex
- "pulsus parvus et tardus" weak pulse
- leads to syncope
Aortic stenosis
Cause of Aortic stenosis?
- age related calcification
- bicuspid of the valve
Holosystolic (pansystolic), harsh-sounding murmur

Loudest at tricuspid area
VSD
Late/Mid systolic crescendo murmur with midsystolic click
Mitral valve prolapse
Cause of midsystolic click in mitral valve prolapse
sudden tensing of chordae tendineae
Heart murmur

- Loudest at S2
- can predispose to endocarditis
- most frequent valvular lesion
Mitral valve prolapse
Cause of mitral valve prolapse
- myxomatous degeneration
- rheumatic fever
- chordae rupture
Immediate high-pitched "blowing" diastolic murmur
Aortic regurgitation
Heart murmur

- wide pulse pressure
- presents w/head bobbing and bounding pulses
Aortic regurgitation
Cause of Aortic regurgitation
- aortic root dilation
- bicuspid aortic valve
- rheumatic fever
Decreases intensity of Aortic regurgitation
Vasodilators

(nitrates)
Heart murmur

- follows opening snap
- LA>>LV pressure during diastole
Mitral stenosis
Causes of Mitral stenosis
- rheumatic fever
- chronic MS
Heart murmur

- loudest at S2
- continuous machine-like murmur
PDA
Cardiac myocytes in contrast to skeletal muscle
1. action potential has a plateau (due to Ca+ influx)

2. nodal cells spontaneously depolarize during diastole

3. electrically couple by gap junctions
Ventricular action potential: phase?

- rapid upstroke
- voltage gated Na+ channels open
Phase 0
Ventricular action potential: phase?

- initial repolarization
- inactivation of voltage-gated Na+ channels
- voltage-gated K+ channels begin to open
Phase 1
Ventricular action potential: phase?

- plateau
- Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated channels balances K+ efflux
- Ca2+ influx triggers Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum
- myocyte contraction
Phase 2
Ventricular action potential: phase?

- rapid repolarization
- massive K+ efflux due to opening of voltage-gated slow K+ channels
- closure of Ca2+ channels
Phase 3
Ventricular action potential: phase?

- resting potential
- high K+ permeability through K+ channels
Phase 4
Pacemaker action potential: phase?

- upstroke
- opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (not fast) therefore no plateau
Phase 0
Pacemaker action potential: phase?

- inactivation of Ca2+ channels
- increase activation of K+ channels -> efflux
Phase 3
Pacemaker action potential: phase?

- slow diastolic depolarization
- membrane potential spontaneously depolarizes
- accounts for automaticity of SA/AV node
Phase 4
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- atrial depolarization
P wave
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- conduction delay through AV node
PR interval
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- ventricular depolarization
QRS complex
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- mechanical contraction of the ventricles
QT interval
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- ventricular repolarization
T wave
Inverted T wave indicates
Recent MI
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- isoelectric, ventricles depolarized
ST segment
Electrocardiogram (ECG) read

- hypokalemia, bradycardia
U wave
Pt present with severe congenital sensorineural deafness

(Jervell and Lange-Nielsen)
Torsades de pointes

(congenital long QT syndrome)
Torsades de pointes (congenital long QT syndrome) can progress to?
V-fib
Torsades de pointes (congenital long QT syndrome) most due to?
Ca+ & K+ channel defects
- delta wave
- accessory conduction pathway from atria to ventricle (bundle of Kent), bypassing AV node
- ventricular preexcitation
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- chaotic and erratic baseline (irregularly irregular)
- no discrete P waves
- can result in stasis
Atrial Fibrillation
Treatment of Atrial fibrillation
- beta blockers

- calcium blockers
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- rapid succession of identical, back-to-back waves
- sawtooth apperance
Atrial Flutter
Treatment for Atrial Flutter
- Class Ia & Ic

- Class III
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- prolong PR interval (>200 msec)
- asymotomatic
First degree Heart block
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- progressive lengthening of the PR interval until a beat is "dropped"
- P wave not followed by a QRS complex
- "asymptomatic"
Second degree heart block
(Mobitz type I)
Treatment for Second degree heart block (Mobitz type I).
Atropine
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- Dropped beats w/no length chance of PR interval
Second degree heart block
(Mobitz type II)
Treatment for Second degree heart block (Mobitz type II)
Pacemaker
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- atria and ventricles beat independently
- both P and QRS present (but bear no relation)
- atrial rate faster than ventricles
Third degree Heart block
Electrocardiogram (ECG) Tracing

- complete erratic rhythm w/no identifiable wave
- fatal arrhythmia w/out intervention
Ventricular fibrillation
Treatment for ventricular fibrillation
- CPR

- Shock (defib)
Receptors in the aortic arch responses to?
increase in BP only
Receptors in the carotid sinus responses to?
both increase and decrease in BP
Aortic arch receptors are transmitted via?
Vagus
Carotid sinus receptors are transmitted via?
Glossopharyngeal
Peripheral chemoreceptors in the carotid and aortic bodies respond to?
- decrease oxygen

- decrease pH of blood
Central chemoreceptors in the brain respond to?
- changes in pH and CO2
Cushing triad
- increase intracranial pressure

- bradycardia

- respiratory depression
Circulation through organ

- largest share of system cardiac output
Liver
Circulation through organ

- highest blood flow per gram of tissue
Circulation through organ

-
Circulation through organ

- large arteriovenous oxygen difference (100% extraction)
Heart
Autoregulation

Factor: local metabolites- O2, adenosine, NO
Heart
Autoregulation

Factor: Local metabolites- CO2 (pH)
Brain
Autoregulation

Factor: Myogenic and tubuloglomerular feedback
Kidney
Autoregulation

Factor: Hypoxia cause vasoconstriction
Lungs
Autoregulation

Factor: Local metabolites- lactate, adenosine, K+
Skeletal Muscle
Autoregulation

Factor: sympathetic stimulation; regulates temp.
Skin