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What is the anterior (sternocostal) surface of the heart formed by?

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Right Ventricle

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What forms the inferior (diaphragmatic) surface of the heart?

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Left Ventricle and Right Ventricle

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What forms the right pulmonary surface of the heart?

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Right Atrium

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What forms the left pulmonary surface (cardiac impression) of the heart?

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Left Ventricle

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Where is the posterior aspect of the heart located?

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Posterior to left 5th ICS, 9 cm from median plane

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Which arteries supply the heart?

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  • Right Coronary Artery
  • Left Coronary Artery
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What is the origin of the right coronary artery?

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Right Aortic Sinus

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What does the nodal artery supply?

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SA Node and Pulmonary trunk

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What does the right marginal artery supply?

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Right ventricle and Apex

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What does the posterior interventricular (descending) artery supply?

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Right and left Ventricle and Posterior 1/3 of IVS

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What artery supplies the AV Node?

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AV Nodal artery

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What is the origin of the left coronary artery?

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Left Aortic Sinus

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What does the SA nodal artery supply?

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Left atrium and SA Node

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What does the left anterior interventricular (descending) artery supply?

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Right and left Ventricles and Anterior 2/3 of IVS, Bundle of His and Apex

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What does the circumflex artery supply?

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Left atrium and Left Ventricle

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What does the left marginal artery supply?

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Left Ventricle

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What does the RCA supply?

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  • Right Atrium
  • Most Right Ventricle
  • Part of Left Ventricle (Diaphragmatic Surface)
  • Posterior 1/3 of IVS
  • SA Node (60%)
  • AV Node (80%)
  • Some part of Left Bundle Branch
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What does the LCA supply?

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  • Left Atrium
  • Most Left Ventricle
  • Part of Right Ventricle
  • 2/3 of IVS including AV Bundle (Right Bundle Branch + Part of Left Bundle Branch)
  • SA Node (40%)
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What is a bronchopulmonary segment?

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Aerated by tertiary bronchus and independent of each other

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How many lower air divisions are there in the lungs?

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How many bronchopulmonary segments are present in the right lung?

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10

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How many bronchopulmonary segments are present in the left lung?

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10

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If an infection spreads anterior to the paratracheal fascia, it spreads to the _______.

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Anterior mediastinum

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The thoracic duct drains into which two veins?
Confluence of left subclavian and left jugular
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What arches over the root of the right lung?
Azygous vein
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Which nerve loops around the arch of the aorta?
Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
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Enlargement of which structure compresses the esophagus?
Left atrium
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What effect does dilatation of the aortic arch have on the left bronchus?
It compresses the left bronchus
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The apex of the lung is involved in the collapse of which segment?
Apical superior
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Where does the neurovascular bundle lie?
Between internal and innermost intercostal muscles
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Where do arterial emboli mostly arise from?
Left atrium
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The left or right dominant supply of the heart is determined by which artery?
Posterior interventricular (Descending) artery
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Which artery does the great cardiac vein accompany?
Left anterior descending artery
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Which artery does the middle cardiac vein accompany?
Posterior interventricular artery
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Which artery does the small cardiac vein accompany?
Marginal artery
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Where does the anterior cardiac vein drain directly into?
Right atrium
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What is the length of the left lobe?
5 cm
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What is the length of the right lobe?
2.5 cm
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Pain of angina from the heart is carried by _______.
Sympathetic nerves
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Pain of pericarditis is carried by _______.
Phrenic nerve
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What supplies the fibrous pericardium and parietal layer of serous pericardium?
Phrenic nerve
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Which nerve supplies the costal pleura?
Intercostal nerve
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Which nerve supplies the mediastinal pleura?
Purely phrenic nerve
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The diaphragmatic pleura is supplied partly by which nerve?
Phrenic nerve and lower six intercostal nerves
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Damage to the phrenic nerve causes _______.
Ipsilateral diaphragm paralysis and loss of central tendon sensation
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The visceral layer of the serous pericardium is called _______.
Epicardium
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The cervical rib arises from which vertebra?
C7
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Thoracic vertebrae are shaped like _______.
Heart
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Lumbar vertebrae are shaped like _______.
Kidney
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A patient can survive mechanical ventilation with a lesion below _______.
C3
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The epicardium is supplied by _______.
Coronary artery
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The pericardium is supplied by _______.
Pericardiophrenic artery
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The visceral pericardium is supplied by _______.
Vagus nerve
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The fibrous pericardium is supplied by _______.
Phrenic nerve
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The anterior two-thirds of the interventricular septum is supplied by _______.
LAD (LCA)
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The posterior one-third of the interventricular septum is supplied by _______.
PDA (RCA)
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The left circumflex artery supplies the _______.
Left atrium and left ventricle
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The SA node is located in the _______.
Upper one third of the sulcus terminalis
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The AV node is located in the _______.
Endocardium
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The conducting system is located in the _______.
Subendocardium
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The anterior two-thirds of the interventricular septum is supplied by which artery?
Anterior interventricular artery (LADA)
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The posterior one-third of the interventricular septum is supplied by which artery?
Posterior interventricular artery (PDA)

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