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Cardiac Anatomy
Aka: Cardiac Anatomy- Images
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Patient Education
- Guidant Heart and Blood Vessel Basics
- FDA Heart Health Online
- Heart vessel anatomy
- Coronary artery layers
- Intima (inner-most layer, lined by endothelium)
- Release Heparin, prostacyclin to prevent clots
- Media (smooth muscle layer)
- External elastic lamina seperates from adventitia
- Adventitia (outer-most layer)
- Composed of fibroblasts, collagen, proteoglycans
- Intima (inner-most layer, lined by endothelium)
- Coronary artery course
- Right coronary artery (RCA)
- Left coronary artery (LCA)
- Left anterior descending artery (LAD)
- Divides into diagonal branches
- Left circumflex artery (LCX)
- Divides into obtuse marginal branches
- Left anterior descending artery (LAD)
- Coronary artery layers