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Anatomy and Physiology of the
Heart
KUSHAL KUMAR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPT. OF PHARMACOLOGY
ISF COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
WEBSITE: - WWW.ISFCP.ORG
EMAIL:KUSHAL1KUMAR@GMAIL.COM
ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga
Ghal Kalan, GT Road, Moga- 142001, Punjab, INDIA
Internal Quality Assurance Cell - (IQAC)
Introduction
 Heart is the center of your cardiovascular system. It is responsible for pumping blood
through your body, carrying nutrients in and taking waste out. Having good
cardiovascular health is an important factor of optimal wellness.
 An adult has a mass of 250-350 grams.
 Each day, the average heart beats 100,000 times, pumping about 2,000 gallons (7,571 liters) of
blood.
 By the end of a long life, a person's heart may have beat (expanded and contracted) more than
3.5 billion times.
 By the end of a long life, a person's heart may have beat (expanded and contracted) more than
3.5 billion times.
 Heart has four chambers and four valves present in the heart control the flow of blood in the
heart.
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Layers and Chambers of the Heart
There are three layers that make up your heart:
Pericardium – the thin outer protective sack
Myocardium – composed of specialized cells that make up the thick
muscular wall
Endocardium – the thin inner lining of the heart
Chambers:
Your heart has 4 chambers. The upper chambers are called the left and
right atria, and the lower chambers are called the left and right
ventricles.
A wall of muscle called the septum separates the left and right atria
and the left and right ventricles. The left ventricle is the
largest and strongest chamber in your heart.
The left ventricle's chamber walls are only about a half-inch thick, but
they have enough force to push blood through the aortic valve and
into your body.
Ref:
http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Anatomy/a
natomy2.cfm
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Valves of the Heart
Ref: https://www.cardiosmart.org/heartvalvedisease
Ref:
https://bilingualbiology11a.blogspot.in/2014/03/the-
circulation-system.html
Four valves regulate blood flow through your heart:
The tricuspid valve regulates blood flow between the right atrium
and right ventricle.
The pulmonary valve controls blood flow from the right ventricle
into the pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to your lungs
to pick up oxygen.
The mitral valve lets oxygen-rich blood from your lungs pass from
the left atrium into the left ventricle.
The aortic valve opens the way for oxygen-rich blood to pass
from the left ventricle into the aorta, your body's largest
artery.
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Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_of_His
Electrical impulses from your heart muscle (the myocardium)
cause your heart to beat (contract). This electrical signal
begins in the sinoatrial (SA) node, located at the top of the
right atrium.
 The SA node is sometimes called the heart's "natural pacemaker."
When an electrical impulse is released from this natural
pacemaker, it causes the atria to contract. The signal then
passes through the atrioventricular (AV) node.
 The AV node checks the signal and sends it through the muscle
fibers of the ventricles, causing them to contract. Although
the SA node sends electrical impulses at a certain rate, your
heart rate may still change depending on physical
demands, stress, or hormonal factors.
Conduction system of the Heart
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Coronary systole and diastole
Ref:
http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/HD002
At any given time the chambers of the heart may found in one of
two states:
Systole. During systole, cardiac muscle tissue is contracting to
push blood out of the chamber.
Diastole. During diastole, the cardiac muscle cells relax to
allow the chamber to fill with blood. Blood pressure
increases in the major arteries during ventricular systole and
decreases during ventricular diastole.
This leads to the 2 numbers associated with blood pressure—
systolic blood pressure is the higher number and diastolic
blood pressure is the lower number. For example, a blood
pressure of 120/80 describes the systolic pressure (120) and
the diastolic pressure (80).
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Cardiac cycle
The cardiac cycle includes all of the events that take place during
one heartbeat. There are 3 phases to the cardiac cycle: atrial
systole, ventricular systole, and relaxation.
Atrial systole: During the atrial systole phase of the cardiac cycle, the
atria contract and push blood into the ventricles. To facilitate
this filling, the AV valves stay open and the semilunar
valves stay closed to keep arterial blood from re- entering
the heart. The atria are much smaller than the ventricles, so
they only fill about 25% of the ventricles during this phase.
The ventricles remain in diastole during this phase.
Ref:
http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/H
D002
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Relaxation phase: During the relaxation phase, all 4 chambers of the
heart are in diastole as blood pours into the heart from the
veins. The ventricles fill to about 75% capacity during this
phase and will be completely filled only after the atria enter
systole.
 Ventricular systole: During ventricular systole, the ventricles contract
to push blood into the aorta and pulmonary trunk. The pressure of
the ventricles forces the semilunar valves to open and the AV
valves to close.
Continue…
Ref:
http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/H
D002
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Blood flow through the heart
Deoxygenated blood returning from the body first enters the heart from the superior
and inferior vena cava. The blood enters the right atrium and is pumped through
the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. From the right ventricle, the blood is
pumped through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary trunk.
The pulmonary trunk carries blood to the lungs where it releases carbon dioxide and
absorbs oxygen. The blood in the lungs returns to the heart through the pulmonary
vein. From the pulmonary veins, blood enters the heart again in the left atrium.
The left atrium contracts to pump blood through the bicuspid (mitral) valve into the left
ventricle. The left ventricle pumps blood through the aortic semilunar valve into
the aorta. From the aorta, blood enters into systemic circulation throughout the
body tissues until it returns to the heart via the vena cava and the cycle repeats.
Ref:
http://hd-m.com/heart-diagram-
of-blood-flow/
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The Electrocardiogram
The electrocardiogram (also known as an EKG or ECG) is a non-invasive
device that measures and monitors the electrical activity of the heart
through the skin. The EKG produces a distinctive waveform in
response to the electrical changes taking place within the heart.
The first part of the wave, called the P wave, is a small increase in voltage of
about 0.1 mV that corresponds to the depolarization of the atria during
atrial systole. The next part of the EKG wave is the QRS complex
which features a small drop in voltage (Q) a large voltage peak (R) and
another small drop in voltage (S). The QRS complex corresponds to the
depolarization of the ventricles during ventricular systole. The atria also
repolarize during the QRS complex, but have almost no effect on the
EKG because they are so much smaller than the ventricles.
Ref:
https://www.datasci.com/solutions/car
diovascular/ecg-research
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The final part of the EKG wave is the T wave, a small peak
that follows the QRS complex. The T wave represents
the ventricular repolarization during the relaxation
phase of the cardiac cycle. Variations in the waveform
and distance between the waves of the EKG can be
used clinically to diagnose the effects of heart attacks,
congenital heart problems, and electrolyte imbalances.
Continue…
Ref:
http://research.vet.upenn.edu/smallanimalcardiology/ECGT
utorial/tabid/4930/Default.aspx
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The Heart Sound
The sounds of a normal heartbeat are known as “lubb” and “dupp” and are
caused by blood pushing on the valves of the heart. The “lubb” sound
comes first in the heartbeat and is the longer of the two heart sounds.
The “lubb” sound is produced by the closing of the AV valves at the
beginning of ventricular systole.
The shorter, sharper “dupp” sound is similarly caused by the closing of the
semilunar valves at the end of ventricular systole. During a normal
heartbeat, these sounds repeat in a regular pattern of lubb-dupp-pause.
Any additional sounds such as liquid rushing or gurgling indicate a
structure problem in the heart. The most likely causes of these
extraneous sounds are defects in the atrial or ventricular septum or
leakage in the valves.
Ref:
http://www.texasheart.org/Projec
tHeart/Kids/Listen/Resting_Hear
t.cfm
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Cardiac Output
 Cardiac output (CO) is the volume of blood being pumped
by the heart in one minute. The equation used to find cardiac
output is:
CO = Stroke Volume x Heart Rate
 Stroke volume is the amount of blood pumped into the aorta
during each ventricular systole, usually measured in
milliliters.
 Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per minute. The
average heart can push around 5 to 5.5 liters per minute at
rest.
Ref:
http://ib.bioninja.com.au/options/option-d-human-
physiology/d4-the-heart/cardiac-output.html
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Some interesting facts about the heart
An electrical system controls the rhythm of your heart. It’s called the cardiac conduction system.
The heart can continue beating even when it’s disconnected from the body.
The first open-heart surgery occurred in 1893. It was performed by Daniel Hale Williams, who was one of the
few black cardiologists in the United States at the time.
The first implantable pacemaker was used in 1958. Arne Larsson, who received the pacemaker, lived longer than
the surgeon who implanted it. Larsson died at 86 of a disease that was unrelated to his heart.
The youngest person to receive heart surgery was only a minute old. She had a heart defect that many babies
don’t survive. Her surgery was successful, but she’ll eventually need a heart transplant.
The earliest known case of heart disease was identified in the remains of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy.
The fairy fly, which is a kind of wasp, has the smallest heart of any living creature.
The American pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal, but it has the fastest heartbeat at 1,200 beats per minute.
Whales have the largest heart of any mammal.
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Continue…..
The giraffe has a lopsided heart, with their left ventricle being thicker than the right. This is because the left side has to get
blood up the giraffe’s long neck to reach their brain.
Most heart attacks happen on a Monday.
Christmas day is the most common day of the year for heart attacks to happen.
The human heart weighs less than 1 pound. However, a man’s heart, on average, is 2 ounces heavier than a woman’s heart.
A woman’s heart beats slightly faster than a man’s heart.
The beating sound of your heart is caused by the valves of the heart opening and closing.
It’s possible to have a broken heart. It’s called broken heart syndrome and can have similar symptoms as a heart attack. The
difference is that a heart attack is from heart disease and broken heart syndrome is caused by a rush of stress hormones
from an emotional or physical stress event.
Death from a broken heart, or broken heart syndrome, is possible but extremely rare.
The iconic heart shape as a symbol of love is traditionally thought to come from the silphium plant, which was used as an
ancient form of birth control.
Thank you
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Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart

  • 1. Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart KUSHAL KUMAR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPT. OF PHARMACOLOGY ISF COLLEGE OF PHARMACY WEBSITE: - WWW.ISFCP.ORG EMAIL:KUSHAL1KUMAR@GMAIL.COM ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga Ghal Kalan, GT Road, Moga- 142001, Punjab, INDIA Internal Quality Assurance Cell - (IQAC)
  • 2. Introduction  Heart is the center of your cardiovascular system. It is responsible for pumping blood through your body, carrying nutrients in and taking waste out. Having good cardiovascular health is an important factor of optimal wellness.  An adult has a mass of 250-350 grams.  Each day, the average heart beats 100,000 times, pumping about 2,000 gallons (7,571 liters) of blood.  By the end of a long life, a person's heart may have beat (expanded and contracted) more than 3.5 billion times.  By the end of a long life, a person's heart may have beat (expanded and contracted) more than 3.5 billion times.  Heart has four chambers and four valves present in the heart control the flow of blood in the heart. 2
  • 3. 3 Layers and Chambers of the Heart There are three layers that make up your heart: Pericardium – the thin outer protective sack Myocardium – composed of specialized cells that make up the thick muscular wall Endocardium – the thin inner lining of the heart Chambers: Your heart has 4 chambers. The upper chambers are called the left and right atria, and the lower chambers are called the left and right ventricles. A wall of muscle called the septum separates the left and right atria and the left and right ventricles. The left ventricle is the largest and strongest chamber in your heart. The left ventricle's chamber walls are only about a half-inch thick, but they have enough force to push blood through the aortic valve and into your body. Ref: http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Anatomy/a natomy2.cfm
  • 4. 4 Valves of the Heart Ref: https://www.cardiosmart.org/heartvalvedisease Ref: https://bilingualbiology11a.blogspot.in/2014/03/the- circulation-system.html Four valves regulate blood flow through your heart: The tricuspid valve regulates blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle. The pulmonary valve controls blood flow from the right ventricle into the pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to your lungs to pick up oxygen. The mitral valve lets oxygen-rich blood from your lungs pass from the left atrium into the left ventricle. The aortic valve opens the way for oxygen-rich blood to pass from the left ventricle into the aorta, your body's largest artery.
  • 5. 5 Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_of_His Electrical impulses from your heart muscle (the myocardium) cause your heart to beat (contract). This electrical signal begins in the sinoatrial (SA) node, located at the top of the right atrium.  The SA node is sometimes called the heart's "natural pacemaker." When an electrical impulse is released from this natural pacemaker, it causes the atria to contract. The signal then passes through the atrioventricular (AV) node.  The AV node checks the signal and sends it through the muscle fibers of the ventricles, causing them to contract. Although the SA node sends electrical impulses at a certain rate, your heart rate may still change depending on physical demands, stress, or hormonal factors. Conduction system of the Heart
  • 6. 6 Coronary systole and diastole Ref: http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/HD002 At any given time the chambers of the heart may found in one of two states: Systole. During systole, cardiac muscle tissue is contracting to push blood out of the chamber. Diastole. During diastole, the cardiac muscle cells relax to allow the chamber to fill with blood. Blood pressure increases in the major arteries during ventricular systole and decreases during ventricular diastole. This leads to the 2 numbers associated with blood pressure— systolic blood pressure is the higher number and diastolic blood pressure is the lower number. For example, a blood pressure of 120/80 describes the systolic pressure (120) and the diastolic pressure (80).
  • 7. 7 Cardiac cycle The cardiac cycle includes all of the events that take place during one heartbeat. There are 3 phases to the cardiac cycle: atrial systole, ventricular systole, and relaxation. Atrial systole: During the atrial systole phase of the cardiac cycle, the atria contract and push blood into the ventricles. To facilitate this filling, the AV valves stay open and the semilunar valves stay closed to keep arterial blood from re- entering the heart. The atria are much smaller than the ventricles, so they only fill about 25% of the ventricles during this phase. The ventricles remain in diastole during this phase. Ref: http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/H D002
  • 8. 8 Relaxation phase: During the relaxation phase, all 4 chambers of the heart are in diastole as blood pours into the heart from the veins. The ventricles fill to about 75% capacity during this phase and will be completely filled only after the atria enter systole.  Ventricular systole: During ventricular systole, the ventricles contract to push blood into the aorta and pulmonary trunk. The pressure of the ventricles forces the semilunar valves to open and the AV valves to close. Continue… Ref: http://www.cvphysiology.com/Heart%20Disease/H D002
  • 9. 9 Blood flow through the heart Deoxygenated blood returning from the body first enters the heart from the superior and inferior vena cava. The blood enters the right atrium and is pumped through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. From the right ventricle, the blood is pumped through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary trunk. The pulmonary trunk carries blood to the lungs where it releases carbon dioxide and absorbs oxygen. The blood in the lungs returns to the heart through the pulmonary vein. From the pulmonary veins, blood enters the heart again in the left atrium. The left atrium contracts to pump blood through the bicuspid (mitral) valve into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps blood through the aortic semilunar valve into the aorta. From the aorta, blood enters into systemic circulation throughout the body tissues until it returns to the heart via the vena cava and the cycle repeats. Ref: http://hd-m.com/heart-diagram- of-blood-flow/
  • 10. 10 The Electrocardiogram The electrocardiogram (also known as an EKG or ECG) is a non-invasive device that measures and monitors the electrical activity of the heart through the skin. The EKG produces a distinctive waveform in response to the electrical changes taking place within the heart. The first part of the wave, called the P wave, is a small increase in voltage of about 0.1 mV that corresponds to the depolarization of the atria during atrial systole. The next part of the EKG wave is the QRS complex which features a small drop in voltage (Q) a large voltage peak (R) and another small drop in voltage (S). The QRS complex corresponds to the depolarization of the ventricles during ventricular systole. The atria also repolarize during the QRS complex, but have almost no effect on the EKG because they are so much smaller than the ventricles. Ref: https://www.datasci.com/solutions/car diovascular/ecg-research
  • 11. 11 The final part of the EKG wave is the T wave, a small peak that follows the QRS complex. The T wave represents the ventricular repolarization during the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle. Variations in the waveform and distance between the waves of the EKG can be used clinically to diagnose the effects of heart attacks, congenital heart problems, and electrolyte imbalances. Continue… Ref: http://research.vet.upenn.edu/smallanimalcardiology/ECGT utorial/tabid/4930/Default.aspx
  • 12. 12 The Heart Sound The sounds of a normal heartbeat are known as “lubb” and “dupp” and are caused by blood pushing on the valves of the heart. The “lubb” sound comes first in the heartbeat and is the longer of the two heart sounds. The “lubb” sound is produced by the closing of the AV valves at the beginning of ventricular systole. The shorter, sharper “dupp” sound is similarly caused by the closing of the semilunar valves at the end of ventricular systole. During a normal heartbeat, these sounds repeat in a regular pattern of lubb-dupp-pause. Any additional sounds such as liquid rushing or gurgling indicate a structure problem in the heart. The most likely causes of these extraneous sounds are defects in the atrial or ventricular septum or leakage in the valves. Ref: http://www.texasheart.org/Projec tHeart/Kids/Listen/Resting_Hear t.cfm
  • 13. 13 Cardiac Output  Cardiac output (CO) is the volume of blood being pumped by the heart in one minute. The equation used to find cardiac output is: CO = Stroke Volume x Heart Rate  Stroke volume is the amount of blood pumped into the aorta during each ventricular systole, usually measured in milliliters.  Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per minute. The average heart can push around 5 to 5.5 liters per minute at rest. Ref: http://ib.bioninja.com.au/options/option-d-human- physiology/d4-the-heart/cardiac-output.html
  • 14. 14 Some interesting facts about the heart An electrical system controls the rhythm of your heart. It’s called the cardiac conduction system. The heart can continue beating even when it’s disconnected from the body. The first open-heart surgery occurred in 1893. It was performed by Daniel Hale Williams, who was one of the few black cardiologists in the United States at the time. The first implantable pacemaker was used in 1958. Arne Larsson, who received the pacemaker, lived longer than the surgeon who implanted it. Larsson died at 86 of a disease that was unrelated to his heart. The youngest person to receive heart surgery was only a minute old. She had a heart defect that many babies don’t survive. Her surgery was successful, but she’ll eventually need a heart transplant. The earliest known case of heart disease was identified in the remains of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy. The fairy fly, which is a kind of wasp, has the smallest heart of any living creature. The American pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal, but it has the fastest heartbeat at 1,200 beats per minute. Whales have the largest heart of any mammal.
  • 15. 15 Continue….. The giraffe has a lopsided heart, with their left ventricle being thicker than the right. This is because the left side has to get blood up the giraffe’s long neck to reach their brain. Most heart attacks happen on a Monday. Christmas day is the most common day of the year for heart attacks to happen. The human heart weighs less than 1 pound. However, a man’s heart, on average, is 2 ounces heavier than a woman’s heart. A woman’s heart beats slightly faster than a man’s heart. The beating sound of your heart is caused by the valves of the heart opening and closing. It’s possible to have a broken heart. It’s called broken heart syndrome and can have similar symptoms as a heart attack. The difference is that a heart attack is from heart disease and broken heart syndrome is caused by a rush of stress hormones from an emotional or physical stress event. Death from a broken heart, or broken heart syndrome, is possible but extremely rare. The iconic heart shape as a symbol of love is traditionally thought to come from the silphium plant, which was used as an ancient form of birth control.