Atlas of Heart Anatomy and Development

Concepts regardingcardiac development.- Cardiogenic mesoderm.- Primitive cardiac tube formation.-Evolution of the cardiac tube.- Atria and interatrial septum formation.- Atrioventricularjunction.- Ventricles and interventricular septum formation.- Formation of thecoronary vessels.- Formation of the heart valvular apparatus.- Formation of theheart fibrous skeleton.- Formation of the excitoconductor tissue.- Formation ofthe autonomous innervations.- Formation of the great vessels located at thebase of the heart.- Formation of the pericardium.- The anatomy of heart .- Thedefinition of the heart.- Extrinsic relations.- Heart projections.- Positionand 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; descriptionof morphological cavitary landmarks; the right aspect of the interventricularseptum; the membranous septum; the valvular apparatus; ventricular pulmonaryjunction.- Topography andinternal aspect of the left ventricle; variability; description ofmorphological cavitary landmarks; the left aspect of the interventricularseptum; 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; collagenorganization of the matrix, hystochemical types.- Macroscopical structure ofthe myocardium - highlighting through dissection of the wall architecture,clinical implications and discussions.- Overall view of the coronary vascularsystem.- Right coronary artery - origin, course, relations, branches,variability.- Left coronary artery - origin, course, relations, branches,variability.- The excitoconductor system - localization, course, relations, internodal

Florin Mihail Filipoiu, PhD, MD, has over 20 years' experience in the Anatomy Department at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila of Bucharest, Romania. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and a specialist doctor in imaging. Since 2011 the author has also held the positions of chief of the Anatomy Department and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.