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Oxygen deprived blood from the vena cava enters the right atrium of the heart
and flows through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle, from which it is
pumped through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary arteries
which go to the lungs. Pulmonary veins return the now oxygen-rich blood to
the heart, where it enters the left atrium before flowing through the mitral valve
into the left ventricle. Then, oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle is
pumped out via the aorta, and on to the rest of the body.
The fluid filled sac that surrounds the heart and keeps it contained
within the chest cavity is the ...?
Pericardium
Valves
1) semi lunar valves
Pulmonary (3cusps)
Aortic (3cusps)
2) Artventricular valves
Bicuspud (mitral) – Left
Tricuspid – Right
What is a commisure?
Line at which the cusp edges meet
Stenosis?
Narrow valves
Aortic pressure: -
Systolic- 110mmhg
Diastolic- 80mmhg
Mean 90mmhg
Arterial system
Contains 17% of blood
Veins
Contain 70% of blood
Thin walled
During the systole phase of the cardiac cycle high blood pressure in the
ventricles causes what to open?
Aortic valves to open
The av node contains small cells and conducts slowly and delays impulse
~120ms, allowing time for atrial contraction to complete ventricular filling.
121.
122.
DVT.
Pulmonary embolus
Pregnancy
Alcoholism
Cushing’s disease
Hyperthyroidism
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Which blood clotting factor does Christmas disease affect? And what is
another name for this disease? Factor IX. Haemophilia B