Anatom3DMediastinum
Mediastinum · Mezihrudí
Fascia & connective tissue
Looks like
The crowded space between the lungs: heart, great vessels, windpipe, gullet, thymus and nerves.
What it does
A corridor between neck and abdomen and the room the heart sits in.
Keeping it well
Nothing of its own. Lumps here press on the airway or the great veins and show as swelling of the face and neck.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neuroblastoma
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies