9. Heart 2 Flashcards
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Arrhythmia from atrium = supraventricular
What is choatic depolarization without functional ventricular contraction?
Ventricular fibirillation
What is the most common cause of arrhythmias?
Ischemic injury
What occurs when the SA node is damaged leading to bradycardia?
Sick sinus syndrome
What occurs when myocytes depolarize independently and sporadically (atrial dilation) with variable transmission through AV node w/ irregular irregular HR?
Atrial fibrillation
When the AV node is dysfunctional, it is known as heart block
First degree: prolonged PR interval
Second degree:
Third degree: ?
Second: intermittent transmission
Third Degree heart block: complete failure
The following can be due to what?
Ischemic heart dz, dilated cardiomyopathy, myocyte hypertrophy, inflammation (myocarditis) and amyloid…
Gap junction abnormalities
Most hereditary heart conditions are autosomal dominant. What are mutations in genes that are required for normal ion channel function? (sometimes assoc w skeletal muscle DOs and diabetes)
Channelopathies
What is the most common arrythmogenic syndrome manifests as arryhthmias associated with excessive prolongation of the cardiac repolarization, presenting with stress induced syncope, SCD, assoc w swimming?
Long QT syndrome
What syndrome presents with patients having arrhythmias associated with abbreviated repolarization intervals, have palpitations, syncope and SCD?
Short QT syndrome
What syndrome manifests as ECG abnormalities (St segment elevations and right bundle branch block) in the absence of a heart DO?
Brugada Syndrome
Sudden cardiac death SCD is unexpected deeath from cardiac cause, either without symtpoms or within 1-24 hours of symptom onset. 80-90% of successively resuscitated patients have no?
lab or ECG changes
What is the most common underlying etiology, causing 80-90% of SCD?
Coronary artery disease CAD
Pt usually have >75% stenosis of 1+ of the coronary As, prior MIs are seen in 40% of the cases… WHat is the first manifestation of Ischemic heart dz? IHD
SCD
SCD is typically due to what, which is most frequently a consequence of CAD/ ischemia induce myocardial irritability?
fatal arryhtmia/ ventricular fibrillation
Systemic left sided hypertensive heart disease (HHD) occurs when?
there is a pressure overload resulting in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)
In left sided HHD, the LV wall is concentrically (septum and wall same) thickened (>1.5cm, weight >500gm). The earliest morphologic change of system HHD is?
that myocytes show and increase tranverse diameter
What dysnfunction can result in left atrial enlargement leading to atrial fibirillation?
diastolic dysfunction
Systemic or left sided HHD may lead to CHF and is a risk factor for?
SCD
Pulmonary right sided HHD is isolated right sided HHD that arises in the setting of?
pulmonary hypertension
Acute cor pulmonale may arise from a large pulmonary embolus, what can be seen in the heart in this case?
marked dilation of RV without hypertrophy (if chronic cor pulomonale will have hypetrophy)
What is the most common cause of pulmonary hypertension?
Left sided heart disease
What are two ways one can tell the difference grossly between left sided and right sided hypertensive heart disease?
Right sided wall thickened and will be the new apex of the heart in some cases
Left sided wall thickened concentrically
PAthologic changes of cadiac valves are largely of 3 types…
1) damage to collagen weakens leaflets (MVP)
2) Nodular calcification beginning in interstitial cells (calcific aortic stenosis)
3)
Fibrotic thickening as seen in rheumatic heart dz (mitral stenosis)
Because cardiac valves are thin enough to be nourished by diffusion from the blood, normal leaflets and cusps have only scant blood vessels limited to?
the proximal portion of the valve