Cardiovascular Flashcards

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What is the lifespan of erythrocytes?

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100-120 days

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What is the average size of erythrocytes?

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-6.2-8.2um length
-2-2.5um wide

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Where are erythrocytes found?

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-Blood
-Bone marrow

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What is the hormone that regulates the formation of erythrocytes?

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-Erythropoietin
-Can use recombinant erythropoietin to boost RBC production

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Why can erythrocytes not repair themselves?

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-They are simple cells
-Anucleate and have no mitochondria

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What is a young red blood cell known as?

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Reticulocyte

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What does a red blood cell consist of?

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-Membrane enclosing
-Enzymes of glycolysis
-Haemoglobin

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Why can haemoglobin not be allowed to travel in the blood by itself?

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It would clog up the kidneys

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What makes up haemoglobin?

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-2 alpha chains
-2 beta chains
-4 haem groups
-Overall quaternary structure

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What does haemoglobin do?
What does it transfer to in muscles?

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Carries oxygen from the lungs to tissues where it transfers oxygen to myoglobin in muscles

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What does oxygen bind to in haemoglobin?

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Oxygen binds to Fe2+ in haem reversibly

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What are the 4 major blood types?

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-A
-B
-AB
-O

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How many red blood cells are produced each minute and where?

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2-3 million produced and released from the marrow every second

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What is the shape of erythrocytes?

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Biconcave

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Approximately how many antigens do red blood cells have on their surface and how many are blood group antigens?

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-Millions of antigens on their surface
-Several hundred are blood group antigens

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Why is the ABO system so potently antigenic?

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The ABO system is so potently antigenic because the corresponding antibodies to each antigen occur naturally

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In what type of inheritance pattern are ABO antigens inherited?

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Mendelian pattern

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Name 3 facts about the inheritance of the ABO blood group:

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-Each group has 25% chance of production from alleles
-Genes code for enzymes rather than for the sugar itself
-Another gene also codes for the sugar base the ‘A’ or the ‘B’

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What makes up the H antigen?

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-Glucose
-Galactose
-N-acetylglucosamine
-Galactose
-Fucose

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How are the blood groups made from the H antigen and what are they called?

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-A or B antigen is added onto the H antigen
-O blood group just has a H antigen
-“h” antigen has no H antigen
-Above called bombay

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What is the approximate number of ABO antibodies at what ages?

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-Infants <3 months will produce little to no antibodies (maternal prior to this)
-First true antibodies will be >3 months
-Maximal titre at 5-10 years
-Titre decreases with age

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What are ABO antibodies a mixture of?

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-IgM
-IgG

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Which type of antibody are mainly for groups A and B?

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IgM

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Why are ABO antibodies able to react at 37 degrees?

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They have a wide thermal range

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For each blood group, name: -Red blood cell type -Antibodies in plasma -Antigens on red blood cells
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How many different rhesus (Rh) antigens are there?
Over 45 different Rh antigens
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Where is the genetic locus of rhesus antigen?
Chromosome 1
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Name 4 things about rhesus antigens genes:
-Co-dominant -2 genes -RHD for RhD -RHCE for RhC and RhE
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Are rhesus antigens immunogenic and why?
-Highly immunogenic -High proportion of D neg people will form anti-D if exposed to D pos blood
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What two reactions can RhD antigens cause?
-Haemolytic transfusion reactions -Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN)
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What is HDFN?
-Haemolytic disease of foetus/newborn -Rh D sensitisation most common cause -Development of antibodies from sensitising event
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What can HDFN cause?
Hydrops fetalis
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How can you prevent HDFN?
-Detect mothers at risk -Maternal-fetal free DNA -Anti D prophylaxis
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What is forward blood typing?
-Patient's RBC -Separate testing with anti-A and anti-B regent -Testing with anti-D reagent
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What is reverse blood typing?
-Patient's plasma -Test with A or B RBC -Indirect Coomb's test
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What is an indirect anti-globulin test?
Testing donor RBC with recipient plasma to see if there will be a transfusion reaction
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What is a direct Antiglobulin Test?
Detecting autoantibodies on the surface of RBC
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What two types of blood can be given to a patient?
-Exact blood type -Compatible blood type
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When is DAT used?
-Patient with possible autoimmune haemolysis -Transfusion reactions -Detecting haemolysis due to fetal/maternal group incompatibility -Can be positive for many other reasons - many not clinically significant
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What blood type is this?
BD-
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What blood type is this?
OD+
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What ages of people can be first time donors?
17-65 year olds
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Where are donors screened?
Donation centers
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What factors are asked of donors on a pre-donor questionnaire and why?
-Highlight those at risk of infectious or transmissible disease -Health, lifestyle, travel, medical history, medications
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Whats the minimum body weight to donate blood?
Minimum 50kg
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What is tested in selected donor bloods?
Test for anaemia in selected patients
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What are exclusion criteria for donating blood?
-Temporary: -Travel -Tattoos -Lifestyle -Permanent: -Certain infectious diseases -Received a blood transfusion or organ-tissue transplant since 1980 -notified risk of vCJD
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What are the two types of blood donation?
-Whole blood -Apheresis - Blood is removed and separated externally and then the components not needed are returned
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What are the mandatory tests for donated blood?
-Hep B -HIV -Hep C -Syphylis -Human T cell lymphotropic virus -Groups and antibodies
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What tests are done on some donated blood?
-CMV -Malaria -West nile virus -Trypanosoma
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What are the first 2 things done to donated blood?
-Whole blood donated into closed-system bags -Blood spun to separate down to packed red cells/ buffy coat and plasma
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What donors is plasma only kept from?
Male donors
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What can plasma be frozen to make?
-FFP (fresh frozen plasma) -Further processed to make cryoprecipitate
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How are RBC processed?
-Red cells kept at ambient temperature for a short time -Passed through a leucodepletion filter and resuspended in additive
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What happens to buffy coats from donated blood?
Buffy coats pooled with donations of matching ABO and D type and then leucodepleted to make platelets
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How are RBC stored and for how long?
-Stored at 4oC -35 day shelf life -Some units are irradiated to eliminate risk of transfusion-associated graft (lymphocyte in bone marrow) vs host disease)
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What is an indication of RBC transfusion?
Severe anaemia (not purely iron deficiency)
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What is the transfusion threshold for RBC?
-Haemoglobin <70g/dL or <80g/dL if symptomatic -Transfuse 1 unit and re-check FBC (unless massive transfusion required)
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What type of blood are available in certain areas of hospital (A&E, maternity)?
Emergency stocks of OD-
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How many donations are most platelet units pooled from?
4 donations
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How are platelets stored and for how long?
-Stored at 22oC -Continuous agitation -7 day shelf life if they are monitored for bacterial contamination
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What are the indications for platelet transfusion?
-Thrombocytopenia and bleeding -Severe thrombocytopenia <10 due to marrow failure (normal plt 150-450)
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What is the platelet transfusion threshold?
-<10 x 109 if not bleeding and asymptomatic -<30 x 109 if minor bleeding -<50 x 109 if significant bleeding -<100 x 109 if critical site bleeding (brain/eye) -Part of a massive transfusion protocol -ABO type still important as antibodies present in plasma still able to cause recipient red cell haemolysis
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What is FFP derived from?
-Whole blood donations or apheresis -From male donors only
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What are exclusion criteria for FFP donation?
-Only patients born >1996 -Can only receive plasma from low vCJD risk (not UK plasma)
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What is the different between single donor packs and pooled donor packs for FFP?
-Single donor have a variable amount of clotting factor -Pooled versions can be more standardised
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What are indications for FFP?
-Multiple clotting factor deficiencies and bleeding (DIC) -Some single clotting factor iron deficiencies where a concentrate isn't available
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How is cryoprecipitate made?
-Thawing FFP to 4oC and skimming off fibrinogen rich layer
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What is the dose and use for cryoprecipitate transfusion?
-Therapeutic dose is 2 packs each pooled from 5 donations of plasma -Used in DIC with bleeding and massive transfusion
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What is made from large pools of donor plasma?
Immunoglobulin (IVIg)
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What is normal IVIg used for?
-Contains Ab to viruses common in the population -Used predominantly in immune conditions such as ITP
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What is specific IVIg used for?
-Chosen for selected patients -Contains known high Ab levels to particular infections/conditions -Anti-D immunoglobulins used in pregnancy -VZV immunoglobulin in severe infection
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When are granulocytes transfused?
-Very rarely as effectiveness is controversial -Severely neutropenic patients with life-threatening bacterial infections -Must be irradiated
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Where do blood factor transfusions come from?
-Recombinant versions from the lab concentrated -Reduces risk of viral or prion transmission
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What are some examples of blood factor concentrates that are transfused?
-Factor VIII for severe haemophilia A -Factor I (fibrinogen) -Prothrombin complex concentrate -Multiple factors -Rapid reversal of warfarin
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What 4 things ensure the safe delivery of blood?
-Patient identification checked -2 sample rule (2 people take 2 samples at 2 different times) -Hand-written patient details -Blood selected and serologically cross-matched
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What mistakes occur in blood transfusion?
-Most common is patient identification errors -Wrong blood in wrong tube -Less commonly - lob errors -Blood transfusions delayed -Too much blood transfused
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How can blood transfusion be avoided?
-Optimise patients with planned surgical procedures pre-op -Use of erythropoietin-stimulating drugs -Renal failure and cancers -Intra-operatively -Cell salvage -IV iron for severe iron deficiency -Some patients may tolerate lower Hbs and if well not require transfusions at all
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How safe are blood transfusion and why?
-Very safe -Heavily regulated and monitored (SHOT,MHRA)
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What are the potential risks of viral infections from blood transfusion of Hep B, Hep C and HIV?
-Hep B <1 in 1.2 million -Hep C <1 in 7 million -HIV <1 in 28 million
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How is the risk of tranfusion-related GvHD reduced?
Risk reduced by leucodepletion and then even further by irradiation
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Where are problems with blood transfusion most likely to occur?
After the blood leaves the lab - patient misidentification, over/under transfusion
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What is the most serious haemolytic reaction?
-ABO incompatibility -Rapid intravascular haemolysis -Cytokine release -Acute renal failure and shock -Disseminated intravascular coagulation -Can be rapidly fatal -Can be acute or delayed (=>24 hours after transfusion)
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What is the treatment for ABO incompatibility?
-Stop transfusion immediately -Fluid resuscitate - A,B,C
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What do haemolytic reactions need to be reported to?
SHOT
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What type of contamination occurs most often with platelet transfusions?
Bacterial contamination
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Symptoms of bacterial contamination of platelet transfusion:
-Occurs very soon after starting transfusion -Fevers and rigors -Hypotension -Shock -Inspection of the unit may show abnormal colouration/ cloudiness
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What is TRALI?
-Transfusion-related acute lung injury
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What causes TRALI?
-Ab in donor blood reacting with recipient pulmonary endothelium/neutrophils -Inflammatory cells cause plasma to leak into alveolar spaces
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What are symptoms of TRALI?
-SOB -Cough productive of frothy sputum -Hypotension -Fevers
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What is the treatment of TRALI?
Supportive treatment
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What is TACO?
Transfusion-associated circulatory overload -Acute or worsening pulmonary oedema within 6 hours of transfusion -One of most common adverse events related to transfusion
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Who is more at risk of TACO?
Older patients
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What are symptoms of TACO?
-Respiratory distress -Evidence of positive fluid balance -Raised blood pressure
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What is treatment of TACO?
-Careful assessment of transfusion need -Limiting amount can help to avoid
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Where are the erythropoietin gene and receptor?
-Chromosome 7 -EPOR - chromosome 19
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What problems arise with RBC?
Anaemia causing hypoxia
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What are the 2 types of anaemia?
-Hypo-regenerative - Bone marrow can't produce enough RBC -Hyper-regenerative - Increased destruction of RBC
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What are the two groups of problems with RBC?
-Corpuscular - Inside RBC -Extra-corpuscular - Outside RBC
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What is polycythemia and what does it cause?
-Too many RBC -Thrombosis -Primary and secondary (caused by other things)
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What corpuscular problems can occur with RBC?
-Membrane (spherocytosis, PNH) -Haemoglobin (haemoglobinopathy) -Enzymes (G6PD, PK)
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What are extra-corpuscular problems with RBC?
-Reduced production -B12 -Folate deficiency -Increased destruction/loss -Bleeding -Haemolysis -Auto or alloimmune -Redistribution (hypersplenism)
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What does this show?
Hb destruction product in urine
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What can SCD cause and why?
-Rigid RBC -Vaso-occlusion event -Ischaemia -Haemolysis -Decreased NO
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What can SCD cause in children?
Dactylitis
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What chest condition can SCD cause?
-Acute chest disease -Clinical or radiological evidence of consolidation
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What are the symptoms of acute chest disease?
-Chest pain -Fever -Dyspnoea -Cough
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What is crizanlizumab?
-Binds to P-selectin -Blocks its interaction with PSGL-1 on neutrophils and monocytes -Prevents platelet aggregation, maintaining blood flow -Minimize sickle-cell related pain crisis
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What is the size of white blood cells?
-7-30um
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What is the lifespan of WBC?
Hours/days/years
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Where are WBC found?
-Thymus -Bone marrow -Blood -Lymphatic organs
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What cells make up the innate (non-specific immunity)?
-Neutrophil -Eosinophil -Basophil -Macrophage -Mast cell
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What cells make up the adaptive (specific) immunity?
-CD4 T-helper cells -CD8 T-cells -B-cells -DCa
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What are humoral and cell-mediated immunity?
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What is the lymphoid journey?
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What are some WBC abnormalities?
-Neutrophil leukocytosis/ neutropenia -Eosinophilia/ eosinopenia -Basophilia -Monocytosis/ monocytopenia -Lymphocytosis/ lymphopenia -Myeloid malignancies -Lymphoid/plasma cell malignancies
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When is cellular therapy/ CAR-T used?
When a patient would not respond to chemotherapy (failed 2 lines)
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What is cellular therapy/ CAR-T?
-Take out patient's T cells -Genetically engineered molecule added to T-cells -Genetically modified T-cells put back into patient which attack cancer
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What is an allogenic bone graft?
-Chemotherapy destroys recipient's bone marrow -Graft from donor replaces stem cells -Recipient immune system supressed
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What tissues can an allogenic bone graft attack?
-Gut -Skin -Liver -Lung -(Acute or chronic) -Can attack remaining malignant cells (+ve)
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What can be given in addition to allogenic bone graft?
-Lymphocyte infusion from donor -Kill donor haemopoiesis
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What is BITE?
-Modify immune cells -Link patient immune system to cancer
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What is the term for the proportion of red blood cells in the blood?
-Haematocrit -Normal is 0.45
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What are the two phases of blood and their proportions?
-Cellular 45% -fluid 55%
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What proportion of the cellular component of blood is RBC?
RBC - 99%
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What term describes the continous production of blood cells and platelets throughout life?
Haemopoiesis
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In adults where does haemopoiesis occur?
Bone marrow
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Where are reticulocytes found?
Bone marrow -Adults - Axial skeleton -Children - All bones
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What is the normal haemoglobin level?
-12.5-15.5 g/dl -Lower = anaemia (reduction in haemoglobin in blood)
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How big are platelets?
2-5um
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What is the average lifespan of a platelet?
7-10 days
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What cells do platelets arise from and by what process?
-Megakaryocytes -Exocytosis
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where can you find platelets?
-Bone marrow -Blood
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What is the cytokine of platelets?
Thrombopoietin
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What makes up a platelet?
-Plasma membrane -Cytoskeleton -Dense tubular system -Secretory granules: -Alpha (VWF, PF4, plasminogen) -Dense (serotonine) -Lysosome -Prexisome
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What are the 2 big groups of bleeding (clotting problems)?
-Platelet type (thrombocytopenia/thrombocytopathy) -Haemophilia type
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What are traits of PLT type bleeding?
-Hx of skin & mucosal bleeding (GI,GU) -Early post-procedural bleeding -Petechial rash -VW disease, ITP, congenital thrombocytopathy -Medication, liver disease, renal failure
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What are traits of haemophilia bleeding?
-Hx of muscle/ joint bleeding, late post-procedural bleeding -Large suffusions, haemotomas -Haemophilia A,B,C -Non-functioning coagulation cascade, platelet unaffected
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What kind of rash do you see for PLT disorders and what do you watch for?
-Non-blanching petechial rash -Watch signs of malignancy, liver disease, splenomegaly
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What kind of rash do you see with haemophilia bleeding?
-Large suffusions -Haematoma -Likely haemophilia
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What is the pathogenic classification of thrombocytopenia?
-Reduced production (reduced megakaryocytes) -Congenital -Acquired -Increased destruction -Immune (auto/allo) -Increased megakaryocytes -Altered redistribution -Pseudothrombocytopenia
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What is thrombocytopenia?
Low platelet count in the blood
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What are congenital and acquired methods of thrombocytopenias?
Congenital: -Adhesion - Bernard-Soulier (GPIb-IX-V), PLT type vWF(GPIb) -Aggregation - Glanzman (GPIIb-IIIa) -Secretion - Gray platelet (alpha granule), storage pool disease (dense granule) -procoagulant activity Acquired: -Medication related -Underlying disease
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For risky procedures, what needs to be checked?
Platelet counts prior to procedure to see risk of internal bleeding
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What are problems to tackle with some patients in terms of plasma?
-Liver cirrhosis patients are anticoagulating themselves - prone to bleed -Procedures and anticoagulation are not safe in liver cirrhosis patients
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What happens in normal haemostasis?
-Primary haemostasis -Normal PLT count & function -Coagulation cascade -Normal procoagulants (PT, APTT) and anticoagulants -(PC, PS, AT), normal FBG level and structure -Termination -Fibrinolysis -Normal pro and antifibrinolytics
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What happens in liver cirrhosis haemostasis?
-Primary haemostasis -Low PLT count but vWF high -ADAMTS13 very low, increased PLT activation to rebalance the low activation of platelets -Coagulation cascade -Low procoagulants (prolonged PT, APTT - except FVIII) and anticoagulants -Low fibrinogen but prothrombotic FBG -Termination -Fibrinolysis -Low pro and antifibrinolytics to rebalance the low procoagulants
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Do liver cirrhosis patients bleed more?
-No -They develop different systems to balance -Most patients even with acute liver failure has normal haemostasis
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What is under-used in liver cirrhosis patients?
-Thromboprophylaxis and anti-thrombotic treatment is underused which increases the risk of thrombosis
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What is thrombocytosis?
High platelet count
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What are the two type of thrombocytosis?
-Clonal -Reactive
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What are 4 causes of reactive thrombocytosis and some treatments?
-Bleeding/iron deficiency -Infection/inflammation -Hyposplenism -Trauma surgery/haemolysis -TREAT UNDERLYING CONDITION
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What can cause clonal thrombocytosis and some treatments?
-MPN -MDS (JAK-2, CALR, MPL, BCR-ABL, 5q-) -Increased risk of arterial or venous thrombosis -TREATMENT: ANTIPLATELET, ANTICOAGULANTS, CYTOREDUCTION, VENESECTION, APHERESIS
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What is blood plasma?
-Liquid component of blood that holds the cellular components of blood -55% of blood volume
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What is the composition of blood plasma?
-95% water -6-8% proteins (fibrinogen, albumin, globulin) -Glucose -Coagulation factors -Electrolytes (Na, Ca, Mg,HCO, CL) -Hormones -Carbon dioxide and oxygen
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What is blood serum?
Blood plasma with clotting factors taken out
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What are some plasma-derived blood products and their uses?
-FFP -Human albumin -Cryoprecipitate -Fibrinogen -Coagulation factor -IVIG
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What are some uses of plasma-derived blood products?
-Volume -Massive transfusion packs -Bleeding disorders -Passive immunisation -PEX -Albumin replacement
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What are the 4 main groups of bleeding disorders?
-Coagulation cascade -PLT -Vascular -Inherited/acquired
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When you asses someone for a procedure what clotting tests are used as standard?
-Prothrombin time (PT) -Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) (POOR TESTS)
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In an ECG trace, what is the time value of: -1 small square -5 small squares -1 big square -5 big squares
-0.04s -0.2s -0.2s -1s
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What are the typical setting for an ECG trace?
-25mm/sec (speed) -10mm/mV (voltage)
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In an ECG trace, what is the voltage value of 1 big square?
0.5mV
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What is a rhythm strip?
A copy of one of the leads for better examination
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How can you calculate heart rate from an ECG?
-300/no. large squares in between each cycle -Number of cycles every 10s x 6
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What is normal resting heart rate and what are the names for high and low heart rate?
-60-100bpm - <60 = bradycardia - >100 tachycardia
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What makes the ECG trace?
The summation of all of the action potentials across the heart
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What do positive and negative deflections show in an ECG?
-Positive = current flowing towards the lead -Negative= current flowing away from the lead -0 = isoelectric point (no current)
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What is the trigger point of the cardia cycle?
SAN
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What is the fastest depolarising part of the heart?
-SAN -Sets the pace of the heart
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What conducts electricity from the atria to the ventricles and what is its function?
-AVN -Has an in-built delay to allow the atria to fully empty their blood into the ventricles during their contraction
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Where does electrical stimulation pass through after the AVN?
-3 bundles of His -1 right -2 left
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What do purkinje fibres do
Spread the electrical activity throughout the ventricles
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What is the P wave on the ECG?
-1st step -SAN depolarises and spreads across atria -Atrial depolarisation followed by atrial contraction
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What phase of the cardia cycle don't you see a wave for?
Atrial repolarisation
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What does the isoelectric phase after the P wave show?
-Delay -Current flows through the AVN
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What does the QRS complex on an ECG show?
Ventricular depolarisation
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What does the T wave on an ECG show?
Ventricular repolarisation
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What is normal, regular PQRS complex referred as?
Sinus rhythm
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What is it called when there is no P wave, can show as erratic?
-Atrial fibrillation -Random atrial activity -Random ventricular capture -Irregularly irregular rhythm
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What is it called when there if fluttering of atria (short circuit)?
-Atrial fluttering -Organised atrial activity (300/min) -Ventricular capture at ratio to atrial rate (2:1) -Usually regular -Can be irregular is ratios vary
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What is the normal PR time interval and why?
-120-200ms -(3 to 5 small squares) -Small delay between atrial and ventricular contractions)
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What can cause a long PR interval?
-Degeneration of conduction system -1st heart block -Delayed AV conduction -Can lead to total heart block (stop)
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What is the normal QRS time period?
-Less than 120ms -(3 small squares)
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What are the most common causes of prolonged QRS?
-Bundle branch block -One of bundle of His working slowly -Widening of the QRS due to different times of depolarisation of right and left ventricle
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What is the normal QT time interval and why is it important?
-Men - 350-440ms -Women - 250-460ms -Measure of time of ventricular repolarisation -Time from onset of QRS to end of T
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What can prolong the QT interval?
-Congenital -Drugs -Predisposed to arrhythmia
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How many leads are there on an ECG?
-12 lead -Rhythm strip
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What 3 leads are used on a 3 lead ECG?
I, II, III
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What is the different between an electrode and a lead?
-Electrode: -Physical connection to patients in order to measure potential at that point -10 electrodes to record a 12 lead ECG -Lead: -Graphical representation of electrical activity at a particular vector -Calculated by machine -12 leads -I-III, aVL, aVF, aVR, V1-6
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When doing an ECG, where are the limb electrodes placed?
Arms and legs
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What are the two types of ECG lead?
-Bipolar lead: -Measures pd between two electrodes -One electrode designated +ve and other -ve -Unipolar lead: -Measures pd between an electrode (+ve) and a combined reference electrode (-ve) -Known as augmented leads
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Which limb electrode is a neutral electrode?
-Right leg -Not directly involved in ECG measurement
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Describe lead I:
-RA = NEG -LA = POS -RA -> LA = POS deflection
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Describe lead II:
-RA = NEG -LL = POS -RA -> LL = POS deflection
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Describe lead III:
-LA = NEG -LL = POS -LA -> LL = POS deflection
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Describe the triangle of leads I, II and III:
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What angles are leads I-III?
-I = 0 -II = +60 -III = +120
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At what angle should maximal degree of current flow in the heart?
-60 degrees -Heart is offset at roughly this angle
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What is the normal cardiac axis of conduction?
--30 - +90 in reference to lead I -Away from this is axis deviation
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What are the 3 unipolar limb leads and where are they?
-aVR -aVL -aVF
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What are the angles of the 3 unipolar limb leads?
-aVR = -150 -aVL = -30 -aVF = +90
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What is normal axis?
Lead I and II are both +ve
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What does it show if lead I is +ve and lead II is -ve?
Left axis deviation
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What does it show if II is +ve and I is -ve?
Right axis deviation
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In what planes do leads I, II, III, aVR, aVF and aVL show?
Coronal (frontal) plane
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In what plane do leads V1-6 show?
Transverse (horizontal) plane
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What do the chest leads look at and which parts?
-Left ventricle -V1+2 = Septal -V3+4 = Anterior -V5+6 = Lateral
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What can problems in different chest leads tell us?
Which vessels of the heart are likely to be blocked that supply the corresponding part of the heart to that chest lead
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What can an ST elevation signify?
Acute myocardial ischaemia
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What do each sections that the leads represent correspond to in terms of vessels?
-Lateral - Circumflex artery -Anterior - Left anterior descending artery -Inferior - Right coronary artery
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What portion of the heart do the three bipolar limb leads represent?
-I = lateral -II = Inferior -III = Inferior
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What portion of the heart do the three unipolar limb leads correspond to?
-aVR = None -aVL = lateral -aVF = Inferior
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What is the membrane of the heart muscle cell normally only permeable to?
K+
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What is the membrane potential of a heart muscle cell usually determined by?
Ions that can cross the membrane
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How is a negative membrane potential maintained in a heart muscle cell?
-K+ ions diffuse outwards (high to low concentration) -Anions cannot follow -Excess of anions inside the cell -Generates negative potential inside the cell
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What are the relative extra/intracellular concentrations of Na+, K+, Ca2+ and Cl-
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How do myocyte membrane pumps maintain negative resting potential?
-K+ pumped IN cells -Na+ and Ca2+ pumped OUT of cells -Pumped against their concentration gradients -This requires ATP for energy for active transport
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How does this table show which ions will diffuse IN or OUT of the cell and which require active transport?
-Sodium and calcium have to be actively transported out of the myocyte -Potassium would passively diffuse out of the myocyte
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What does the graph of cardiac action potential look like?
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What are the four stages of the cardiac action potential?
-4 = polarised (resting potential) -0 = action potential/depolarisation -1 = initial repolarisation -2 = gradual repolarisation (plateau) -3 = quick repolarisation -4 repeats again (maintenance of resting potential)
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What stage of the cardiac action potential is this?
Stage 4 - resting potential
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What are the missing values and what does it represent?
-Stage 4 -Resting potential
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What are the two protein transporters covered and what stage are they?
-Stage 4 (resting potential)
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What stage of the cycle does this represent and what proteins are involved?
-Stage 0 (depolarisation)
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What stage of the cycle does this represent?
-Stage 1 (initial repolarisation)
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What stage of the cycle is happening here and what protein is involved?
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What stage of the cycle does this represent?
-Stage 2 (plateau)
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What is going on in this diagram and what protein is involved?
-Stage 2 (plateau)
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What stage of the cycle does this represent?
-Stage 3 (repolarisation)
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What is going on in this diagram and what protein is involved?
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How does an ECG trace line up with the potential of myocytes?
QRS complex lines up with depolarisation
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What is the wave of depolarisation of an action potential?
-Local depolarisation activates nearby Na+ channels (voltage gated) -This causes a further influx of sodium ions -This causes adjacent voltage gated sodium ions to open, causing further sodium influx
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What does a wave of depolarisation cause?
The action potential to spread across the membrane
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What allows cell-to-cell conduction and propagation across the whole myocardium?
Gap junctions
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What does the influx of each ion look like for each part of the cardiac action potential?
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Why is the action potential of a myocyte different?
Contraction of the heart muscle requires appropriately timed delivery of Ca2+ into the cytoplasm
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Explain the first step of excitation-contraction coupling in terms of calcium and what stage of the polarisation cycle is corresponds to:
-Depolarisation of membrane -Calcium influx through surface ion channels -2
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Explain the second step of excitation-contraction coupling in terms of calcium:
-Amplification of calcium ions with NaCa transporter
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Explain the third step of excitation-contraction coupling in terms of calcium:
-Calcium ions induce the sarcoplasmic reticulum to release more calcium ions -Concentration of calcium ions in the sarcoplasm is now high
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Briefly describe how Troponin-Tropomyosin-Actin complex induces muscles contraction:
-Calcium ions bind to troponin -Conformational change of tropomyosin reveals myosin binding sites -Myosin head cross-links with actin -Myosin head pivots causing muscle contraction
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What is the difference between contraction of skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle?
-Cardiac muscle contraction lasts longer than skeletal muscle -Up to 15 times longer -Due to slow calcium channels -Decreased permeability of membrane to potassium after action potential
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What are the 3 specialist conduction tissues in the heart?
-SAN -AVN -His/Purkinje system
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What are some specific points about the SAN action potential?
-Upsloping phase 4 -Less rapid phase 0 -No discernable phase 1/2
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What is the pattern of depolarisation at the SAN?
-Gradual depolarisation -Until a threshold of roughly 35mV -Then rapid depolarisation via calcium ion influx
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Place each of these on the diagram and what they stand for: -If -ICa,T -ICa,L
-Funny current -Transient calcium current -Long lasting calcium current
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What 5 things affect the phase 4 slope?
-Autonomic tone -Drugs -Hypoxia -Electrolytes -Age
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What does the SAN phase 4 do?
-Drifts towards the threshold -Steeper the drift, the faster the pacemaker
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What innervation affects the gradient of phase 4 drifting?
-Higher sympathetic innervation = Higher gradient -Higher vagal = lower gradient
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What does increased sympathetic stimulation of the heart result in? Specific terms?
-Increase heart rate (+ve chronotropic) (up to 180-250bpm) -Increase force of contraction (+ve inotropic) -Increase cardiac output (large, by up to 200%)
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What does parasympathetic stimulation of the heart result in?
-Decrease heart rate (-ve chronotropic) -Decrease force of contraction (-ve inotropic) -Decrease cardiac output
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What neurotransmitters control the heart rate and how do they work?
-Andrenaline and noradrenaline -Type 1 beta adrenoreceptors -Increases adenyl cyclase -> increases cAMP
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What does a decrease in sympathetic stimulation result in?
-Decreased heart rate -Decreased force of contraction -Decreased cardiac output (by up to 30%)
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What is parasympathetic stimulation of the heart controlled by (transmitters) and how does it work?
-Acetylcholine -M2 receptors -Inhibit adenyl cyclase -> reduced cAMP
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What does increased parasympathetic stimulation to the heart result in?
-Decreased heart rate (temporary pause or as low as 30-40bpm) -Decreased force of contraction -Decreased cardiac output (up to 50%)
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What does decreased parasympathetic stimulation to the heart result in?
increased heart rate
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What does the AVN do?
-Transmits cardia impulse between atria and ventricles -Delays impulse -Limits dangerous tachycardias
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How is the delayed impulse through the AVN achieved and why?
-Fewer gap junctions -AV fibres are smaller than atrial fibres -Allows atria to empty blood into ventricles -Limits dangerous tachycardias
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Where is the fastest speed of transmission of impulse in the heart?
-Faster in specialised fibres -Purkinje fibres - 4m/s
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What is the speed of impusle transmission in atrial and ventricular muscle and purkinje fibres?
-Atrial and ventricular muscle - 0.3 to 0.5m/s -Purkinje fibres - 4m/s
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What is the purpose of the His-Purkinje system?
-Transmit impulse from AVN to ventricles -Rapid conduction
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What is the purpose of rapid conduction in the His-Purkinje system and how is it achieved?
-Allow coordinated ventricular contraction -Very large fibres -High permeability at gap junctions
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How does the automacity of heart tissues change in the heart?
-Spontaneous discharge rate of heart muscle cells decrease down the heart -SAN usually the fastest -Ventricular myocardium the slowest -This relates to the speed of repolarisation (3)
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What does hyperpolarisation mean and what is it part of?
-Forms the refractory period in between channel proteins being open and being closed but activatable -Channel proteins are closed and in activatable
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What is the time period for the normal refractory period of a ventricle and is it greater or smaller for atria?
-Approx 0.25s -Less for atria than ventricles
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What is the point of the refractory period in the heart muscle?
-Prevents excessively frequent contraction -Allows adequate time for heart to fill
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What is the ARP and RRP?
-Absolute refractory period - No depolarisation can take place -Relative refractory period - Some strong stimuli can cause action potentials -Some sodium channels still inactivated -Potassium channels still open -Affected by heart rate
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What heart condition does a rise in extracellular potassium cause?
-Tachyarrhythmia -Myocytes are less polarised -Less polarised myocytes are more easily activated
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What will all new drugs undergo modelling for in terms of the heart?
-How they might interact with cardiac ion channels -Will they affect QT interval?
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What do calcium channel blocker drugs do?
Prolong the refractory period of cardiac tissues
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What are some classes of drugs that can affect the cardiac action potential?
-Calcium channel blockers -Potassium channel blockers -Beta-blockers -Sodium channel blockers
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What is long QT syndrome and what causes it?
-Abnormality of K+ channel causes loss of function -Slower outward K+ current delays repolarisation -This increases risk of Early Afterdepolarisations (EAD) -Risk of syncope/ sudden cardiac arrest
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What are the 4 main components of myocardium?
-Contractile tissue -Connective tissue -Fibrous frame -Specialised conductive system
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What does the pumping action of the heart depend on?
Interactions between contractile proteins in its muscular wall
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What do the interactions between contractile proteins in the heart muscle wall do?
-Transform chemical energy derived from ATP into mechanical work -This moves blood under pressure from the great veins into the pulmonary artery, and from the pulmonary veins into the aorta
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What activates contractile proteins in the heart muscle wall?
Signalling process called excitation-contraction coupling
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When does excitation-contraction coupling begin and end?
-Begins when action potential depolarises the cell -Ends when Ca2+ in the cytosol binds to the Ca2+ receptor of the contractile apparatus
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How does Ca2+ move into the cytosol?
-Passive movement -Mediated by Ca2+ channels
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What happens chemically to cause the heart to relax?
Ion exchangers and pumps transport Ca2+ out of the cytosol against a concentration gradient
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What is plasma membrane's role in mycoardium?
-Regulates excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation -Separates the cytosol from extra-cellular space and sarcoplasmic reticulum
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What is a myocardial cell full of?
Cross-striated myofibrils
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What does myocardial metabolism rely on and why?
-Free fatty acids during aerobic respiration -Efficient energy production
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What happens to myocardium during hypoxic conditions and why?
-No FFA metabolism -Anaerobic metabolism of glucose ensues -Produced energy sufficient to maintain survival of affected muscle without contraction
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What are myofibrils?
Contractile proteins arranged in a regular array of thick and thin filaments (organelle)
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What is the A band?
Region of the sarcomere occupied by the thick filament
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What is the I band?
-Area occupied only by thin filaments that extend towards the centre of the sarcomere from the Z lines -Contains tropomyosin and troponins
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What is the Z line?
Bisects each I band
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What is a sarcomere?
Functional unit of the contractile apparatus
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What defines each sarcomere?
The region between a pair of Z lines
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What is inside the sarcomere?
-Two half I bands -One A band
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What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
-Membrane network that surrounds the contractile proteins -Sarcotubular networks at the centre of the sarcomere -Subsarcolemmal cisternae - abut the T-tubules and the sarcolemma
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What are the T-tubules?
-Transverse tubular system -Lined by a membrane continuous with the sarcolemma -Lumen of the T-tubules carries extracellular space towards the centre of the myocardial cell
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What happens in the sarcolemma during contraction and what does it require?
-Sliding of actin over myosin by ATP hydrolysis through the action of ATPase in the head of the myosin molecule -Heads form cross-bridges that interact with actin
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When can myosin heads form cross-bridge interactions with actin?
-After linkage between calcium and TnC -Deactivation of tropomyosin and TnI
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Describe myosin:
-2 heavy chains - also responsible for the dual heads -4 light chains -Heads perpendicular on thick filament at rest, bend towards centre of sarcomere during contraction -Alpha and Beta myosin
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Describe actin:
-Globular protein -Double stranded macromolecular helix (G) -Both form the F actin
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Describe tropomyosin:
-Elongated molecule made of two helical peptide chains -Occupies each longitudinal groove between the two actin strands -regulates the interaction between the other three
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Describe troponin:
-I - With tropomyosin, inhibits actin and myosin interaction -T - binds troponin complex to tropomyosin -C - High affinity calcium binding sites, signalling contraction
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What happens when Ca2+ binds to troponin C?
Drives TnI away from actin, allowing its interaction with myosin
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How does the myosin head move during contraction?
Bends towards the M line (centre of sarcomere)
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What 3 things control the contractile cycle?
-Calcium ions -Troponin phosphorylation -Myosin ATPase
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Give the locations and salient properties of each protein in the contraction cycle:
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Why do we need control of the circulation (5)?
-Maintain blood flow -Maintain arterial pressure -Distribute blood flow -Auto-regulate/homeostasis -Function normally
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What are the 5 main components of circulation?
-Anatomy -Blood -Pressure -Volume -Flow
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What 4 organs/ structures take the most blood flow and in what proportion?
-Liver - 27% -Kidneys - 22% -Muscle = 155 -Brain - 14%
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What proportion of total blood flow does skin, bone and heart take?
-Skin - 6% -Bone - 5% -Heart - 4%
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What is the split of blood volume in the circulation?
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Describe arteries:
-Low resistance conduits -Elastic -Cushion systole -Maintain blood flow to organs during diastole
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What are arterioles important in providing?
-Principal site of resistance to vascular flow -TPR = total arteriolar resistance -MAJOR role in determining arterial pressure -Major role in distribution flow to organs/tissues
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What factors affect arteriole resistance?
-Local -Neural -Hormonal
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What determines radius of arterioles and how does it change?
-Vascular smooth muscle (VSM) -VSM contract = lower radius = higher resistance = lower flow -VSM relaxes = increase radius = lower resistance = higher flow -(Vasoconstriction/vasodilation)
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What is myogenic tone?
The vascular smooth muscle is never completely relaxed
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Do capillaries have fast or slow flow and why?
-40,000km length -Large area
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Why do capillaries have slow flow?
Allows time for nutrient/waste exchange
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What is flow in capillaries dependant on?
-Plasma or interstitial fluid flow determines the distribution of ECF between compartments -Arteriolar resistance -No. of open pre-capillary sphincters
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Describe veins:
-Compliant -Low resistance conduits -Capacitance vessels -Valves aid venous return (VR) against gravity
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How much blood volume is in the veins and at what pressure?
-70% of blood volume -10mmHg
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What aids return of blood through the venous vessels?
-Valves -Skeletal muscle/ respiratory pump -SNS mediated vasoconstriction maintains VR/VP
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Describe lymphatics:
-Fluid/protein excess filtered from capillaries -Return of this interstitial fluid to CV system -Thoracic duct, left SC vein
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What is the flow in lymphatics and what is it aided by?
-Uni-directional flow -Aided by: -Smooth muscle in lymphatic vessels -Skeletal muscle pump -Respiratory pump
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What is the equation for cardiac output (CO)?
Cardiac Output (CO) = Heart Rate (HR) x Stroke Volume (SV)
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What is the equation for blood pressure (BP)? Not systolic or diastolic pressures
Blood Pressure (BP) = CO x Total Peripheral Resistance (TPR)
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What is the equation for Pulse Pressure (PP)?
Pulse Pressure (PP) = Systolic pressure - Diastolic pressure
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What is the equation for Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)?
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) = Diastolic pressure + 1/3PP
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What two equations govern flow?
-Ohm's Law -Poiseuille's equation
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What is Ohm's law for blood flow?
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What is poiseuille's equation for blood flow?
-P = pressure -u = viscosity -L = length -Q = flow rate -R = radius
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What is the Frank-Starling mechanism?
-SV increases as EDV increases -Due to length-tension relationship of muscle -Higher EDV = more stretch = higher force of contraction -Cardiac muscle at rest is NOT at optimum length
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Describe the Frank-Starling graph:
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How does venous return affect cardiac output and why?
-Frank-Starling relationship -Higher venous return = higher EDV = higher SV = higher CO -(Even if HR constant)
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What does the pressure/volume loop of LV function look like?
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What is important about venous return?
-Important beat to beat (FS mechanism) -Blood volume is an important long term moderator
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What things can affect blood volume (4)?
-Na+, H2O -Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone system -ADH -Adrenals and kidneys
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How do you calculate MAP from CO?
MAP = CO x TPR
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What is the main goal of circulation control and what does it rely on? Equation
-Maintain blood flow -Needs pressure to push blood through peripheral resistance -MAP = CO x TPR
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What is blood pressure?
Pressure of blood within and against arteries
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What are systolic and diastolic blood pressure?
-Systolic - Highest, when ventricles contract (100-150mmHg) -Diastolic - Lowest, when ventricles relax (NOT 0 due to aortic valves and aortic elasticity, 60-90mmHg)
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What measures blood pressure and where?
-Sphygmomanometer -Brachial artery -Convenient. to compress -Level of heart
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Where can you hear sounds when measuring blood pressure?
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What 5 things are involved in BP control?
-Autoregulation -Local mediators -Humural factors -Baroreceptors -Central (neural control)
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What is myogenic autoregulation?
-Stretch of vascular smooth muscle -Contraction until diameter is normalised or slightly reduced
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What is autoregulation?
-Intrinsic ability of an organ -Constant flow despite perfusion pressure changes
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Which vessels have better autoregulation properties?
-Renal/cerebral/coronary = Excellent -Skeletal muscle/splanchnic = Moderate -Cutaneous = Poor
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Does intrinsic or extrinsic control dominate brain and heart and why?
-Intrinsic control -Maintain BF to vital organs
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Is intrinsic or extrinsic control more important to skin?
-Extrinsic -BF is important in general vasocontrictor response and also responses ti temperature via extrinsic via hypothalamus
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What dominates control of skeletal muscle blood flow, intrinsic or extrinsic?
-BOTH -At rest, vasoconstrictor is dominant (extrinsic) -Upon exercise, intrinsic mechanisms predominate
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What are 2 local humoral factors that lead to vasoconstriction?
-Endothelin-1 -internal blood pressure (myogenic autoregulation)
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What are 5 things/groups that are local humoral factors that lead to vasodilation?
-Hypoxia -Adenosine -Bradykinin -Small molecules (NO, K+, CO2, H+) -Tissue breakdown products
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What is the main function of the endothelium?
-Control functions
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What are 3 substances that are produced by endothelium and what are their effects?
-Nitric Oxide (NO) = potent vasodilator -Prostacyclin = potent vasodilator -Endothelin = potent vasoconstrictor
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What is Furchgott's experiment and what did it show?
-Two vessels, one without endothelium -Expose to Acetyl choline -One with endothelium dilates, other constricts -Endothelium produces NO
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What are 3 circulating hormonal factors that produce vasoconstriction?
-Epinephrine (skin) -Angiotensin II -Vasopressin (ADH)
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What 2 circulating hormonal factors cause vasodilation?
-Epinephrine (muscle) -Atrial natriuretic peptide
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What are baroreceptors?
Pressure sensing receptors
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Where are primary and secondary baroreceptors?
-Primary (Arterial) = carotid sinus & aortic arch -Secondary = veins, myocardium, pulmonary vessels
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What are the afferent and efferent nerves for baroreceptors to and from the CNS to effectors?
-Afferent = Glossopharyngeal (IX) -Efferents = Sympathetic and vagus (X)
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What is the firing rate of baroreceptors proportional to?
-MAP -PP -integrated in the medulla
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How does an increase in BP affect baroreceptors and what is the response?
Increased BP = increased firing = Increased PNS / Decreased SNS = decreased CO/TPR = Decreased BP
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what do arterial baroreceptors play a key role in?
-Short-term regulation of BP -minute to minute control -response to exercise -haemorrhage
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What happens to arterial baroreceptors if arterial pressure deviates for norm for more than a few days?
-They adapt/reset to new baseline pressure -e.g. in hypertension -Major factor in long-term BP control is blood volume (H2O, Na+
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Where are cardiopulmonary baroreceptors?
-Atria -Ventricles -PA stretch
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What do cardiopulmonary barorecepetors release?
Atrial natriuretic hormone (ANP)
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What effects does ANP have (specific)?
-Lower activity of vasoconstrictor centre in medulla -Lower BP -Lower release of angiotensin, aldosterone and vasopressin (ADH), fluid loss -Blood volume regulation
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What is the central neural control loop?
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What are the main 6 neural influences on medulla?
-Baroreceptors -Chemoreceptors -Hypothalamus -Cerebral cortex -Skin -Changes in blood O2 and CO2
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How does the autonomic nervous system affect each organ via sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways?
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What do CV reflexes require? CNS
Hypothalamus and pons
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What does stimulation of anterior hypothalamus cause?
-Decreased Bp and HR -Reverse happens with posterolateral hypothalamus
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What other organ is the hypothalamus important in regulating?
Regulation of skin blood flow in response to temperature
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What can the cerebral cortex affect in terms of cardiology?
-Blood flow and pressure -Stimulation usually = increased vasoconstriction -Emotion can increase vasodilation and depressor responses e.g. blushing, fainting -Effects mediated by medulla but some directly
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Where are central chemoreceptors?
Chemosensitive regions in the medulla
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What do central chemoreceptors detect?
-High and low PaCO2 -High and low pH
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What does an increase or decrease in PaCO2 and pH detected by central chemoreceptors cause?
-Increase = Vasoconstriction = Increase in peripheral resistance = Increase in BP -Decrease = Decrease medullary tonic activity = Decrease in BP -pH reverse (more peripheral)
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What are the effects of PaO2 changes more detected by?
-Peripheral chemoreceptors -In central chemoreceptors: -Moderate decrease = vasoconstriction -Severe decrease - general depression
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Show on the diagram how chemoreceptors play an important role in controlling respiration:
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What is short term BP control determined by?
-Baroreceptors -Increase BP = Increase firing = Increased PNS/Decreased SNS = Lower CO/TPR = Lower BP
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What is long term BP control determined by?
-Volume of blood -Na+, H2O, RAAS and ADH
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Where are the key central effectors of blood pressure?
-Peripheral -Blood vessels (vasoconstriction & vasodilation - affects TPR) -Heart (rate & contractility: CO = HR x SV) -Kidney (fluid balance - longer term control)
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Desribe fainting:
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Describe blood loss:
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Describe Orthostatic hypotension:
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Describe POTS:
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Describe Heart failure:
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Describe the minute by minute homeostatic feedback loop:
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What are the basic 3 events of the cardiac cycle?
-LV contraction -LV relaxation -LV filling
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What are the two phases of LV contraction?
-Isovolumetric contraction (b) -Maximal ejection (c)
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What are the 5 phases of LV relaxation?
-Start of relaxation and reduced ejection (d) -Isovolumetric relaxation (e) -Rapid LV filling and LV suction (f) -Slow LV filling (diastasis) (g) -Atrial booster (a)
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Name the 7 steps of ventricular systole:
-Wave of depolarisation arrives -opens the L-calcium tubule (R peak on ECG) -Ca2+ arrive at contractile proteins -LVp rises > LAp -MV closes - M1 of 1st HS -LVp rises (isovolumetric contraction) >Aop -AoV opens and ejection starts
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Name the 6 steps of ventricular diastole:
-LVp peaks then decreases -Influence of phosphorylated phospholambdan, cytosolic calcium is taken up into the SR -"phase of reduced ejection" -Ao flow is maintained by aortic distensibility -LVp < Aop, Ao valve shuts, A2 of the 2nd HS -"isovolumetric relaxation", then MV opens
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What is distensibility?
-A measure of elasticity -How well something (vessel) can stretch under pressure
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Name the 4 steps of ventricular filling:
-LVp < LAp, MV opens, Rapid filling starts (E) -Ventricular suction (active diastolic relaxation), may also contribute to E filling -Diastasis (seperation): LVp = LAp, filling temporarily stops -Filling is renewed when A contraction (booster) raises LAp creating a pressure gradient
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What is the physiological vs cardiological systole?
-Physiological: -Isovolumetric contraction -Maximal ejection -Cardiological: -From M1 to A2 -Only part of isovolumteric contraction (includes maximal and reduced ejection phases)
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What is the physiological vs cardiological diastole?
-Physiological: -Reduced ejection -Isovolumetric relaxation -Filling phase -Cardiological: -A2 to M1 interval (filling phases included)
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What is preload?
The load present before LV contraction has started
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What is afterload?
The resistance the left ventricle must overcome to circulate blood
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What is Starling's Law of 1918?
Within physiological limits, the larger the volume of the heart, the greater the energy of its contraction and the amount of chemical change at each contraction
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What is left ventricular filling pressure?
-Difference between the LAp and LV diastolic pressure -The relationship reaches a plateau
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What is the force-length interaction that relates to Starling's Law?
-Force produced by the skeletal muscle declines when the sarcomere is less than the optimal length (Actin's projection from Z disc "1um" X 2) -In the cardiac sarcomere, at 80% of the optimal length, only 10% of maximal force is produced
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At what length must the cardiac sarcomere operate at?
-Must function near the upper limit of their maximal length -Lmax = 2.2um
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What affects the physiological LV changes?
When the sarcomere lengthens from 85% of Lmax to Lmax
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What kind of relationship does length-dependant activation have?
Steep relationship
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What is it called when the heart increases the pressure even when volume is fixed?
Isovolumetric contraction
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What does increased diastolic heart volume cause and through what system?
-Increased velocity and force of contraction -Isovolumetric contraction + Frank-Starling -Large force -+ve inotropic effect
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What is contractility?
-Inotropic state -State of the heart which enables it to increase its contraction velocity -Higher contractility = higher pressure achieved (independent of load)
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What is elasticity?
Myocardial ability to recover its normal shape after removal of systolic stress
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What is compliance?
The relationship between the change in stress and the resultant strain - dP/dV
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What is diastolic distensibility?
Pressure required to fill the ventricles to the same diastolic volume
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What reflects the contractility?
Pressure-volume loop in the end-systolic pressure volume relationship
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What reflects compliance?
End diastolic pressure volume relationship
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What are the effects of pressure vs volume work on the LV?
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When are isometric conditions found in the heart?
Isovolumetric contraction
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When would you find isotonic contraction in the heart?
-NEVER -Isotonic contraction is totally impossible in the heart
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Describe the phases of the cardiac cycle hidden in this diagram:
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Describe the ECG hidden in this diagram:
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Describe the heart sounds hidden in this diagram:
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Describe the pressures hidden in this diagram:
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Be able to recall all of these labels:
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What is gastrulation?
Mass movement and invagination of the blastula to form three layers: ectoderm, mesoderm (middle) and endoderm
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What comes from the ectoderm (outside)?
-Skin -Nervous system -Neural crest (contributes to cardiac outflow, coronary arteries)
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What comes from the mesoderm (middle)?
-All types of muscle -Most system -Kidneys -Blood -Bone
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What comes from the endoderm?
-GI tract (inc liver, pancreas, but not smooth muscle) -Endocrine organs
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What developmental region does most of the cardiovascular system derive from?
-Cells which were situated in the mesoderm -Blood, heart, smooth muscle, endothelium
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Where does a small proportion of the cardiovascular system derive from developmentally?
Cardiac neural crest cells from the ectoderm
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What 3 cardiac milestones are significant in cardiovascular developmental biology?
-Basic tube -Single loop -Double loop septated heart
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What is an example of a condition related to what developmental region the cardiovascular system arises from?
-Heart and blood vessels sometimes try to turn into bone -Both derived from the mesoderm
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Which colours represent the first heart field and second heart field and what day does it form?
-First heart field = Red -Second heart field = Yellow -Day 15
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What is the function of the first heart field?
Generates a scaffold which is added to by the second heart field and cardiac neural crest
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What do the First heart field and Second heart field go on to form?
-FHF = Future left ventricle -SHF = Outflow tract, future right ventricle, atria
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What happens by day 21 of heart development?
-Single ventricle -Inflow tract into 2 structures that will become right and left atria -Conus trunk (truncus arteriosus)
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What day of development is this? Label it:
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What happens by day 28?
-More looped structure -R atrium + Left atrium -R ventricle + L ventricle -Conus trunk (truncus arteriosus)
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What day of heart development is this? label it:
-Day 28
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What happens by day 50 of heart development?
-Fully developed heart
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What day of heart development is this?
Day 50
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What is a gene?
DNA which when expressed is transcribed into RNA which is translated into protein with a function
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What is a transcription factor?
A type of protein which when expressed "turns on/off" many other gene(s) expression: master regulators of complex processes
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What are some examples of cardiac transcription factors?
-NKx2.5 -GATA -Hand -Tbx MEF2 -Pitx2 Fog-1
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How are transcription factors expressed?
They are expressed in a tissue-specific manner
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What process accounts for increasing complexity of development through evolution?
-As organisms evolve, gene duplication occurs sporadically (from single gene to entire genome) -Each copy of each gene can evolve separately into different (but related) genes
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What are the 3 main stages of cardiac formation?
-Formation of the primitive heart tube -Cardiac looping -Cardiac septation
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Describe the first step of the formation of the primitive heart tube:
-Formed from cells that form a horseshoe shape called the cardiogenc region
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Describe the second step of the formation of the primitive heart tube:
-Day 19 -Two endocardial tubes form -Two tubes will fuse to form a single, primitive heart tube
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What is the third step of the formation of the primitive heart tube?
-Day 21 -Embryo undergoes lateral folding -Two endocardial tubes have fused to form. a single heart tube
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Label each part of the primitive heart tube and what they form:
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What does the Bulbis Cordis form?
-Most of the right ventricle -Parts of. the outflow tract for aorta and pulmonary trunk
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What does the primitive ventricle form?
Most of the left ventricle
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What does the primitive atrium form?
Anterior parts of the right and left atria
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What does the sinus venosus form?
-Superior vena cava -Part of the right atrium -Splits between right and left horn
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What does overexpression of Nkx2.5 cause?
Increases heart size (Fish heart)
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What does preventing GATA4 transcription cause?
-Induces cardia bifida -Failure of the endocardial tubes to fuse (Chick heart)
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Describe the first part of cardiac looping:
-Tubus cordis moves inferiorly, anteriorly and to the embryos right
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By what day of embryo development does the heart start to beat?
Day 22
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Describe the second stage. of cardiac looping:
The primitive ventricle moves to the embryo's left side simultaneous to the movement of the bulbis cordis
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Describe the third stage of cardiac looping:
Primitive atrium and sinus venosus move superiorly and posteriorly -Sinus venosus is posterior ti the primitive atrium
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Describe the general altogether movement during cardiac looping:
462
What must all vertebrae hearts have?
Leftward ventricle
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What are many mutations associated with in terms of heart positioning?
-Improper left-right positioning -Kartagener's syndrome
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What is involved in determining left and right sides of the heart?
-The node secretes nodal, which circulates to the left due to ciliary movement -A cascade of transcription factors transduce looping
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What is present in the heart at the end of cardiac looping?
-One common atrium -One common ventricle -Joined by the atrioventricular canal -Future superior vena cava
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How does blood move through the primitive heart?
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What is the first part of cardiac septation?
-Masses of tissue called endocardial cushions grow from the sides of the atrioventricular canal -Position the canal into two separate openings as they fuse -Push the atrioventricular canal to the right -Now the right and left atrioventricular canals
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Where do the 2 endocardial cushions grow?
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What will the right and left atrioventricular canals go on to form?
Right and left atrioventricular openings of the heart
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How will blood move through the heart after cardiac septation?
-Through primative atrium -Through both atrioventricular canals -Through primitive ventricle -Through trunucs arteriosus
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What is the importance of platelets in disease?
-Thrombosis -Formation of a clot (thrombus) inside a blood vessel -Platelets have central role in arterial thombosis -Heart attack -Stroke -Sudden death
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What kind of medication can be lifesaving in terms of thrombus?
Antiplatelet medication
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Label this diagram:
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What are atherogenesis and atherothrombosis?
-Build up of fatty plaque -Eventual damage to endothelial wall and occlusive thrombus forming
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Label this diagram and name the processes:
Atherogenesis and atherothrombosis
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What does activation of platelets cause and why?
-Shape change -Smooth discoid to spiculated + pseudopodia -Increased surface area -increased possibility of cell-to-cell interactions
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Where are glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptors and what causes a change?
-Surface of platelet -50,000-100,000 on resting platelet -Platelet activation: -Increases number of receptors -Increases receptor affinity for fibrinogen
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What causes platelets to aggregate?
Fibrinogen links glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptors, binding platelets together
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What happens after atherosclerotic plaque rupture?
Platelets adhere to damaged vessel wall
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How do platelets adhere to damaged vessel walls and what happens?
-Collagen receptors on platelets bind to subendothelial collagen which is exposed -GPIIb/IIIa also binds von Willebrand factor (VWF) which is attached to collagen -Soluble agonists are also released and activate platelets
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What is the first stage of platelet plugging?
Endothelial damage
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What is the second step of platelet plug formation?
Initial adhesion vis GPIB/VWF
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What is the third step of platelet plug formation?
-Rolling GPIb/VWF -alpha2beta1/collagen adhesion -Platelets are activated
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What is the fourth step of platelet plug formation
-Stable adhesion -Activation/aggregation -GPVI GPIIb/IIIa
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Binding of what platelet receptor to what causes platelet activation?
GPVI to collagen
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What does platelet adhesion look like?
Due to all receptors adhering to collagen
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What agonists can cause activation of platelets?
-ADP -> P2Y1 -Collagen -> GPVI -Thromboxane A2 -> TPalpha -Thrombin -> PAR1 + PAR 4
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Label the diagram:
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What does platelet activation lead to (3)?
-Shape change -Cross-linking of GPIIb/IIIa -Platelet aggregation
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What inhibits an activation pathway of platelets and how?
-Aspirin -Prevents production and release of Thromboxane A2 when collagen binds to GPVI
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Where is the apex beat?
-Left 5th intercostal space -Mid-clavicular line
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What defines the right heart border?
-SVC -Right atrium
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What defines the left heart border?
-Aortic knuckle -Left pulmonary artery -Left atrial appendage -Left ventricle
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What defines the anterior border of the heart?
Mainly right ventricle
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What defines the posterior border of the heart?
Mainly left atrium and pulmonary veins
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What is the mediastinum?
The area in between the right and left pleura
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How is the mediastinum divided?
-Plane between sternal angle and T4/5 divides superior and inferior mediastinum -Pericardium divides anterior, middle and posterior mediastinum
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What does the pericardium consist of?
-Fibrous (parietal) layer -Visceral layer
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What is inbetween the two pericardial layers?
-Pericardial space -Potential space
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What's it called when there is a rapid collection of pericardial fluid and what does it cause?
-Cardiac tamponade -Restricts and impairs filling
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What allows drainage of pericardial fluid and to where?
-Pleural reflection -From the left of the xiphisternum
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What valves are intrinsic to the ventricles?
-Atrioventricular valves -Tricuspid and mitral
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What do disorders of the ventricle often affect?
Disorders of the ventricle often affect function of the relevant atrioventricular valve
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What connect to the atrioventricular valves and by what?
-Papillary muscles -Connect via chordae tendinae
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What valves are an intrinsic part of the great vessels?
-Semilunar valves -Aortic and pulmonary
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What do disorders of the aorta or pulmonary artery often affect?
Function of their respective valve
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Does arterial blood always leave the heart fully oxygenated?
No
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What is blood leaving the heart called?
-Arterial blood -Not always fully oxygenated
509
What is blood returning to the heart called?
-Venous blood -Not always deoxygenated
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What artery carries deoxygenated blood from the heart?
Pulmonary artery
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What veins carry oxygenated blood back to the heart?
Pulmonary veins
512
What are COX enzymes?
Cyclooxygenase 1 and 2
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What processes do COX-1 and COX-2 catalyse as enzymes and where?
-Arachidonic Acid -> Prostaglandin H2 -In both platelets (COX-1) and endothelial cells (COX-1 and COX-2)
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What is prostaglandin H2 converted into and in what cells?
-In platelets: -Prostaglandin H2 -> Thromboxane A2 -In endothelial cells: -Prostaglandin H2 -> Prostacylcin
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What is the effect of Thromboxane A2 and Prostacylin production?
-Thromboxane A2 amplifies: -Platelet aggregation -Vasoconstriction -Prostacyclin inhibits above two processes
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Label this diagram: What does it show?
Thromboxane A2 amplification pathway
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How does low and high dose aspirin work?
-Low dose - inhibits COX-1 -High dose - inhibits COX-1 & COX-2 -Preferential effect on platelets as not much reaches endothelial cells -Inhibits platelets activation
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What proteins are linked to P2Y1 and P2Y12 receptors?
-P2Y1 - Gq protein -P2Y12 - Gi protein
519
What role does ATP have outside the cell?
Signalling molecule
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What is the first receptor that ADP binds to on the platelet and what amplification does it cause?
-Binds to P2Y1 -Activates it -Amplifies Phospholipase C pathway -Triggers release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores -Activates protein kinase C
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What does activation of Protein kinase C and release of intracellular Ca2+ cause?
-Initiation of aggregation -Shape change (spiculated)
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Label this diagram: What does it show?
ADP amplification pathway P2Y1
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What is the second type of receptor that ADP binds to on the platelet and what does it cause?
-P2Y12 protein -Activates it -Inhibits Adenylate cyclase -Inhibits formation of Cyclic AMP (cAMP) from adenylate cyclase -Activates PI3 kinase
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What do inhibition of adenylate cyclase and amplification of PI3 kinase cause?
-Amplification of: -Platelet activation -Aggregation -Granule release
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Label this diagram: What does it show?
ADP amplification pathway P2Y12
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Explain ADP-induced platelet aggregation:
-ADP binds to P2Y1 and activates it -This induces platelet activation -This activates GPIIb/IIIa -Fibrinogen can bind to GPIIb/IIIa and cause cross-linking platelet aggregation
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Explain ADP activation amplification:
-ADP binds to P2Y12 -This amplifies the activation of platelets through P2Y1 -Sustains platelet activation and aggregation
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Where does most of the ADP involved in platelet activation and amplification come from?
-Dense granules -Released from the cell surface to bind to P2Y receptors
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How does GPIIb/IIIa affect platelet activation?
Amplifies the platelet activation response
530
What receptor does thrombin bind to and how is it generated?
-Thrombin is generated through the coagulation cascade -Binds to PAR-1 receptor -Can bind to PAR-4
531
What does thrombin binding to PAR-1 cause?
-Release of ADP through dense granules -ADP binding to P2Y1 activating platelets -ADP binding to P2Y12 further amplifying activation
532
What is platelet procoagulant activity?
Platelets provide a surface for proteins involved in coagulation to assimilate on
533
What is the resting state of platelet procoagulant activity?
-Aminophospholipids only on inner surface of bi-layer -Maintained by protein called translocase
534
What does activation of PAR-1 cause?
-Thrombin activates PAR-1 -Amplification of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores
535
What is the effect of an increase of intracellular Ca2+ in a platelet?
-Negative inhibition of translocase -Positive amplification of scramblase -Scramblase causes aminophospholipids to move to the extra-cellular side of membrane
536
What happens when aminophospholipids are expressed on the extracellular side of the platelet membrane?
-Allows assembly of proteins of the coagulation cascade -Va and Xa can bind together to form prothrombinase -This complex can then convert prothrombin into thrombin
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What does thrombin amplify the production of?
Amplifies its own production
538
What forms as a result of the relationship between platelets and the coagulation cascade?
-Platelet-fibrin clots -Fibrin at the centre of this relationship
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What is released by the endothelium in the first step in the fibrinolytic system and what does it cause?
-tPA - tissue plasminogen activator -Converts plasminogen into plasmin
540
What does plasmin do in the fibrinolytic system?
Converts fibrin into fibrin degradation products
541
What inhibitor acts on tPA?
PAI-1
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What inhibitor acts on plasmin?
Antiplasmin (plasmin, antiplasmin complex)
543
What do alpha granules contain?
-Coagulation factors -Inflammatory mediators
544
What relationship do platelets have with leuokocytes?
-Pro-inflammatory and prothrombotic interactions with leukocytes -Release inflammatory mediators from alpha granules -Through P-selectin
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What is P-selectin and what does it do?
-Contained in alpha granules -When released, expressed on platelet surface -Leukocytes have counter-receptor called PSGL-1 -Binding of two receptors -Increases inflammatory response
546
Describe the thickness of each heart chamber:
-Left ventricle -Systemic ventricle -Right ventricle has a thin muscular wall -Atria are thin walled
547
How many pulmonary veins are there and where do they drain into?
-Four pulmonary veins (usually) -Drain into the left atrium
548
What drains blood from the heart muscle and where into?
-Coronary sinus -Right atrium
549
What are the two sections of the right atrium?
-Smooth (from sinus venosus) -Trabeculated (from original atrium)
550
What separates the smooth and trabeculated portions of the right atrium?
Crista terminalis
551
What is the fossa ovalis a remnant of?
Remains of the foramen ovale which was present in foetal life
552
How do cardiac muscle cells join?
-Cross-link -Join at intercalated discs
553
Where do coronary arteries stem from and what do they supply?
-Arise from the aortic root sinuses -Supply the heart itself
554
Are coronary arteries accessible by surgeons and why?
-Yes (bypass surgery) -They are epicardial
555
What are the names of the main coronary arteries?
Left and right main coronary arteries
556
What kind of arteries are coronary arteries?
-Functional end arteries -Only one area of tissue is supplied by the artery (do not connect) -Unless collateral supply has developed
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What does the left main coronary artery branch into?
-Left anterior descending (LAD) -Circumflex (Cx)
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Where does the LAD run?
Runs in the anterior interventricular groove
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What branches does the LAD give off?
-Septal branches - Septum -Diagonal branches - Left ventricular myocardium
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Where does the Cx run?
Runs in the left atrioventricular groove
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What branches does the Cx give off?
Obtuse marginal branches to the posterolateral LV wall
562
In what % of the population does the Cx give off the posterior descending artery?
10%
563
Where does the right coronary artery run?
Right atrioventricular groove
564
What does the right coronary artery normally supply?
-SAN -AV node -Branches to the anterior RV wall
565
What do distal RCA branches branch into?
-Posterolateral arteries -Posterior descending artery (70%)
566
In what % of the population does the RCA branch into the posterior descending artery?
70%
567
Where does the posterior descending artery run and what does it supply?
-Posterior interventricular groove -Supplies inferior septum and LV
568
What does dominance refer to in terms of coronary arteries?
-Refers to the artery which supplies the posterior descending artery -RCA or Cx
569
What are the proportions of coronary artery dominance in the heart?
-10% left dominant - Cx -20% co-dominant - Cx + RCA -70% right dominant - RCA
570
Why do we need circulation?
-Every cell in body need bathed in fluid and 2mm from oxygenation -Reproduces extracellular primitive uni and multi-cellular organisms in primeval ocean
571
Label this diagram:
572
Describe the arterial system:
-Conduits of blood -Physical properties: -Elastic arteries - increase efficiency -Muscular arteries - regulatory control of distribution
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Describe the elastic arteries:
-Major distribution vessels -Aorta, brachiocephalic, carotids, subclavian, pulmonary -Biggest
574
Describe muscular arteries:
-Mains distributing arteries -Smaller than elastic, bigger than arterioles
575
Describe arterioles:
-Terminal branches -Smaller than muscular and elastic arteries - <300 um diameter
576
Describe capillaries:
-Functional part of circulation -Blood flow regulated by precapillarry sphincters -Between 3-40 microns in diameter -Three types: -Continuous (most common) -Fenestrated -Discontinuous (liver sinusoids)
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Describe the venous system:
-Return blood to heart -System of valves allows "muscular pumping" -Some peristaltic movement
578
Label this diagram:
579
What is this? When is it present?
580
What are the consequences of circulatory embryology abnormalities?
-Abberrant embryology accounts for many congenital abnormalities in fetal death -Many processes which pattern blood vessels in embryo are also used in post-natal physiological and pathalogical processes
581
What day starts formation of blood vessels? -Describe it:
17
582
What is the second stage of blood vessel formation? Describe it:
583
What happens of day 18 in terms of vessel formation?
Axial vessel formation
584
Describe what happens in day 18 in terms of vessel formation?
585
What happens on day 18 onwards in terms on blood vessel formation?
586
What happens during blood vessel formation after this stage?
Other mesodermal cells are recruited
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What drives embryonic vessel development?
-Angiogenic growth factors (vascular endothelial growth factor, angiopentin 1 and 2) -Repulsive signals -Attractive signals (VEGF)
588
What is the difference between arteries and veins?
-Structure -Flow conditions -Specific features -Specific embryonic proteins in arteries and veins (gene activation)
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What does this show and at what stage of embryonic development is it?
-Aortic arches -7 weeks
590
Label arches 1, 2 and 3:
591
Label arches 4 and 6:
592
Label 7th seg and dorsal aorta:
593
What do 1st and 2nd aortic arches form?
594
What do 3rd aortic arches form?
595
What does right 4th aortic arch and right dorsal aorta form?
596
What does left 4th aortic arch and left dorsal aorta form?
597
What do the 5th aortic arches form?
598
What do the 6th aortic arches form?