Atlas of Heart Anatomy and Development

Concepts regarding
cardiac development.- Cardiogenic mesoderm.- Primitive cardiac tube formation.-
Evolution of the cardiac tube.- Atria and interatrial septum formation.- Atrioventricular
junction.- Ventricles and interventricular septum formation.- Formation of the
coronary vessels.- Formation of the heart valvular apparatus.- Formation of the
heart fibrous skeleton.- Formation of the excitoconductor tissue.- Formation of
the autonomous innervations.- Formation of the great vessels located at the
base of the heart.- Formation of the pericardium.- The anatomy of heart .- The
definition of the heart.- Extrinsic relations.- Heart projections.- Position
and location.- External configuration.- The right atrium- internal aspect;
variability; description of morphological cavitary landmarks.- The left atrium-
internal aspect; variability; description of morphological cavitary landmarks.-
Topography and internal aspect of the right ventricle; variability; description
of morphological cavitary landmarks; the right aspect of the interventricular
septum; the membranous septum; the valvular apparatus; ventricular pulmonary
junction.- Topography and
internal aspect of the left ventricle; variability; description of
morphological cavitary landmarks; the left aspect of the interventricular
septum; the valvular apparatus; the aortic root.- The myocardial infrastructure.-
Microscopic structure: the cardiomyocyte; description; structural pattern;
optical and electronic microscopy.- Extra cellular matrix - definition,
components, description; collagen
organization of the matrix, hystochemical types.- Macroscopical structure of
the myocardium - highlighting through dissection of the wall architecture,
clinical implications and discussions.- Overall view of the coronary vascular
system.- Right coronary artery - origin, course, relations, branches,
variability.- Left coronary artery - origin, course, relations, branches,
variability.- The excitoconductor system
- localization,course, relations, internodal connections, dorso-sinusal
space, cavo-tricuspidian istmus, variability.- The fibrous skeleton of the
heart - components, localization, description, variability.- The vegetative
innervation of the heart - description, nervous plexuses, intramural ganglions.-
Anatomic-clinical considerations related to the cardiac pain.- Pericardium -
description, projections.