Anatom3DHeart
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Heart & arteries
Looks like
A fist-sized muscular pump with four chambers, sitting slightly left behind the breastbone.
What it does
Pushes about 5 litres of blood a minute, some 100 000 beats a day.
Keeping it well
Movement, sleep, and treating high blood pressure — the best-supported of the lot. Statins for someone who has already had a heart attack prevent about 1 event in 25 over five years; for low-risk people with no disease the absolute gain is nearer 1 in 100. In blinded trials the drug itself causes muscle symptoms in about 1 person in 100 and slightly raises the risk of diabetes.
Its parts
- Pericardium
- Myocardium
- Endocardium
- Right atrium
- Right ventricle
- Left atrium
- Left ventricle
- Interventricular septum
- Interatrial septum & fossa ovalis
- Heart valves
- Conduction system
- Coronary arteries
- Coronary sinus
- Right side of heart
- Anterior cardiac venous tree
- Coronary sinus tree
- Left side of heart
- Fibrous skeleton of heart
- Anterior cardiac vein
- Anterior interventricular vein
- Wall of ventricle
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- Botulism
- Brugada syndrome
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Heart attack
- Heart block & bradycardia
- Heart failure
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infective endocarditis
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary oedema
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tetanus
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Valve disease (stenosis & regurgitation)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome