LEC 19: Heart Flashcards
What are the 4 chambers of the heart
Right Atrium
Right Ventricle
Left Atrium
Left Ventricle
What are the 4 valves of the heart and what do they separate
Tricuspid Valve (separates RA/RV)
Pulmonic Valve (separates RV/pulmonary artery)
Mitral (Bicuspid) Valve (separates LA/LV)
Aortic Valve (separates LV/aorta)
What are the primitive tissues that form the heart

- Heart primordium (cardiac mesoderm)
- Forms cranial to neural plate
Cross Section
- Intra/extra embryonic coelom communicate
- along entire region of the fetus pairs of blood vessels are forming from angioblastic cords–paired aorta that will fuse to eventually form the AORTA
Lateral Section
- Cardiac mesoderm
- Pericardial coelom will eventually engulf the heart
- Septum transversum
- Head fold will bring heart into chest

Angioblastic cords
Angioblastic cords form paired heart tubes, and eventually fuse to form a single tube
Blood islands form primitavely on the surface of the yolk sac, coallesce to form a network of arteries and veins

- arteries and veins communicate with embryonic circulation via vitelline veins/arteries (empty into caudal end of heart tube)
- heart tube forms from fusion of 2 endocardial tubes, then folds upon itself (heart)
- blood vessels coming from placenta
- 2 umbilical arteries
- 2 umbilical veins (1 disappears)
- these also empty into caudal heart tube

Common cardinal vein

- anterior cardinal vein
- posterior cardinal vein
- drain upper and lower portions of embryonic body

Components of Primitive Embryonic Heart Tube (cranial to caudal)
- Aortic sac
- Truncus arteriosis
- Bulbus cordis
- Primitive ventricle
- Primitive atrium
- Sinus venosus (veins entering into here from placenta)
Single Heart Tube

- genes telling heart to fold, more cells proliferating on one side of heart type
- cranial folding assists with fold
- sinous venous, primitive atrium, primitive ventricle, bulbous cordis, truncus arteriosus, aortic sac

What separates primitive atrium from primitive ventricle

- endocardial cushions that grow toward each other
- divides AV canal into (2) AV canals
- partition primitive atrium from primitive ventricle
- play role in formation of mitral and tricuspid valve

Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
- common congenital heart defect
- opening in ventricular septum that allows oxygen rich and oxygen deficient blood to mix
How to Right and Left Ventricle get separated (interventricular septum)

- Interventricular septum (muscular growth of thick cardiac mesoderm inward toward endocardial cushion)
- Membranous tissue (thin layer of tissue that grows inward medially, meets up with interventricular septum)

Papillary muscles
- whisps of tissue attached to endocardial tissue of the fused endocardial cushions are valves
- valves held in place by papillary muscles
- prevent valves from prolapsing into atrium
Mitral Valve Prolapse: leaflets of mitral valve (between LA/LV) bulge (prolapse) upward or back into left atrium as heart contracts; blood may leak backward into left atrium (mitral valve regurgitation)

Division of primitive atrium (overview)

- Septum primum
* foramen secundum - Septum secundum
* foramen ovale

Septum primum

- primary division of atrium
- starts from posterior wall of primitive atrium
- grows toward endocardial cushions
- fenestrations form in septum primum during development of septum secundum
- these fenestrations will give rise to foramen primum and foramen secundum

foramen primum

- foramen primum eventually grown over/obliterated
- only opening left in septum primum is the formen secundum

Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
- congenital atrial septal defect
- if young person has a stroke, should suspect PFO
Septum secundum
- forms after septum primum
- faces right atrium (while septum primum faces left atrium)
- foramen ovale forms in septum secundum
foramen ovale

- forms in septum secundum
- Right to Left Atrial shunt
- allows blood to bypass the fetal lungs
- close after birth when
- pulmonary vascular resistance decreases
- left atrial pressure increases

Great Vessels
- aorta (left ventricular outflow tract)
- pulmonary artery (right ventricular outflow tract)
Formation of great vessels
- conotruncal ridges (aka: bulbar and truncal ridges) form in the truncus arteriorsis and part of the bulbus cordis)
- cranial most part of the cardiac tube
- aorticopulmonary septum (dividing aorta from pulmonary trunk)
- 180 degree spiraling results in separation of aorta and pulmonary artery, but they are hugging still
- Formation
- aorta (left ventricular outflow tract)
- pulmonary artery (right ventricular outflow tract)
Which is more dorsal/ventral, aorta or pulmonary trunk
AORTA = more dorsal
PULMONARY TRUNK = more ventral
Formation of aortic and pulmonic valves

- semilunar valves
- aortic
- pulmonic
- conotruncal ridges meet interventricular septum (IVS)
- three subendocardial swellings for each valve
- remodeled to form three (3) thin-walled cusps

Formation of atrioventricular valves

- Tricuspid (RA/RV)
- Mitral (LA/LV) (also called bicuspid)
- develop from proliferation of tissue around endocardial cushions/AV canals

Dorsal Aorta
- initially a pair of tubes
- first fuse to form cardiac tube —> primitive heart
- next, fuse to form single dorsal aorta
- connect with aortic arches (cranial region)
- aortic arches connect to the aortic sac in the primitive heart tube
