Anatom3DThorax
Thorax · Hrudník
Skeleton
Looks like
A cage of 12 rib pairs around the heart and lungs, closed below by the domed diaphragm.
What it does
Moves air in and out and pumps blood to the whole body.
Keeping it well
No smoking, regular brisk movement and vaccination against flu and pneumonia. Crushing chest pain means call an ambulance.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Acromegaly
- Acute bronchitis
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Altitude sickness
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Aortic aneurysm
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic stenosis
- Asbestosis and asbestos-related disease
- Aspergillosis
- Asthma
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- Benign breast lumps (fibroadenoma, cysts)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Breast cancer
- Breathing pattern disorder
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis & RSV
- 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
- COPD
- Coronary artery disease
- Costochondritis
- COVID-19
- Croup & epiglottitis
- Cystic fibrosis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Drowning
- Eating disorders
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Gynaecomastia
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hantavirus infection
- Heart attack
- Heart block & bradycardia
- Heart failure
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- High prolactin (hyperprolactinaemia)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Infective endocarditis
- Influenza
- Kawasaki disease
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Long COVID (post-viral syndrome)
- Long QT syndrome
- Lung abscess
- Lung cancer
- Lyme disease
- Male breast cancer
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Mastitis & breast abscess
- Measles
- Mesothelioma
- Metabolic syndrome
- Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic disease
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myocarditis
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neuroblastoma
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pleural effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Premenstrual syndrome and PMDD
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary oedema
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Scoliosis
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Trichinellosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Turner syndrome
- Valve disease (stenosis & regurgitation)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Whooping cough
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome