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How and why the heart goes
wrong
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What there is to go wrong
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How and why the heart goes wrong
VALVES
MUSCLE
VESSELS
ELECTRICS
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How and why the heart goes wrong
MUSCLE
VALVES
VESSELS
ELECTRICS
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How and why the heart goes wrong
TOO MUCH
TOO LITTLE
MUSCLE
Dilated
Hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy cardiomyopathy
VALVES
Stenosed
regurgitant
VESSELS
Blockage
aneurysmal
ELECTRICS tachycardia
bradycardia
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How and why the heart goes wrong
ANATOMIC
MOLECULAR INFECTIVE POISON DEGENER.
MUSCLE
Connections Cardioholes
myopathy
virus
VALVES
Malformed
floppy
bacterial
VESSELS
Anomalous
connections
/courses
Atheroma
blockage
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Smoking Atheroma
instability
?viral
drugs
ELECTRICS Defective
circuitry
Drugs,
alcohol
Stiffening
Fibrosis/
calcification
fibrosis
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How and why the heart goes wrong
MUSCLE
Malformed
• connections
• holes
Cardiomyopathy
• hypertrophic
• dilated
• restrictive
Hypertensive disease
Remodelling
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How and why the heart goes wrong
VALVES
Congenital
• malformed
Acquired
• rheumatic fever
• infective endocarditis
• trauma
• degenerative
• floppy
• senile calcification
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Heart Valve lesions
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Mitral stenosis
Aortic stenosis
Pulmonary stenosis
Tricuspid stenosis
Prosthetic stenosis
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Mitral regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation
Pulmonary regurgitation
Tricuspid regurgitation
Prosthetic regurgitation
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MS echo
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Aortic Stenosis - aetiology
• Congenital – bicuspid valve
• Acquired
– Rheumatic
– Senile/degenerative
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Aortic stenosis
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Echo AS
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AR - xray
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AR - Echo
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How and why the heart goes wrong
VESSELS
Malformed
Atheromatous disease
• stenosis
narrowing
myocardial ischaemia
angina
• occlusion
blockage
myocardial infarction
• dilatation
aneurysmal
dissection
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How and why the heart goes wrong
ELECTRICS
Malformed
• inadequate connection
• excessive connection
Molecular
• instability
Degenerative
Bystander
• MI, infection, cardiomyopathy
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Sinus node disease
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AV node disease
Complete (3rd degree) heart block
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What there is to go wrong
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Atrial flutter
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Atrial fibrillation
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What there is to go wrong
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AV nodal re-entry tachycardia
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What there is to go wrong
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Ventricular tachycardia
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Torsades de Pointes
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Rhythm Strip During Episode of Sudden Death
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Implanatable defibrillator in-situ
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How and why the heart goes wrong
ANATOMIC
MOLECULAR INFECTIVE POISON DEGENER.
MUSCLE
Connections Cardioholes
myopathy
virus
VALVES
Malformed
floppy
bacterial
VESSELS
Anomalous
connections
/courses
Atheroma
blockage
??
Smoking Atheroma
instability
?viral
drugs
ELECTRICS Defective
circuitry
Drugs,
alcohol
Stiffening
Fibrosis/
calcification
fibrosis
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How and why the heart goes wrong
TOO MUCH
TOO LITTLE
MUSCLE
Dilated
Hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy cardiomyopathy
VALVES
Stenosed
regurgitant
VESSELS
Blockage
aneurysmal
ELECTRICS tachycardia
bradycardia
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Mitral regurgitation – pathophysiology
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Leaking mitral valve
LV emptying
LV filling
LV dilatation
LV stretch contractile failure
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LA pressure
LA stretch
Atrial arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation)
Thrombo-embolic risk
– stroke (cerebrovascular accident)
– heart attack (myocardial infarct)
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Mitral regurgitation – pathophysiology
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Leaking mitral valve
LV emptying
LV filling
LV dilatation
LV stretch contractile failure
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LA pressure
LA stretch
Atrial arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation)
Thrombo-embolic risk
– stroke (cerebrovascular accident)
– heart attack (myocardial infarct)
valve
muscle
electrics
vessels
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