ANATOMY OF HEART RELATED TO KIDNEY

Definition of heart :
The heart is a roughly cone-shaped hollow muscular
organs.
Its about 10cm long and is about the size of the
owners fist.
It weight about 225g in women and is heavier in men
(310 g).
LOCATION
The heart lies in the thoracic cavity between the lung
ORGAN ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEART
Inferior : The apex rests on the central tendon of the
diaphragm.
Superior : The great blood vessels in the aorta, superior
vena cava, pulmonary artery and pulmonary
veins.
Posterior : The esophagus, trachea, left and right
bronchus, descending aorta, inferior vena cava
and thoracic vertebrae.
Lateral : The lung- the left lung overlaps the left side of
the heart.
Anterior : The sternum, ribs and intercostal muscles.
HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER
The heart job is to send a continuous supply of
oxygenated blood around the body.
The kidney filter the blood extracting waste in the form of
urine.
Also helps regulated the water and salt level to control
blood pressure.
Relatively heart failure is a significant risk factor of kidney
disease.
When the heart is no longer pumping efficiently it become
congested with the blood, causing pressure to build up in
the main vein connected to the kidney and leading to
congestion of blood in the kidney.
The kidney also suffer from the reduced supply of
oxygenated blood.
 When the kidney become impaired, the hormone
system which regulated blood pressure goes into
overdrive in an attempt to increase blood supply to the
kidney.
The heart then has to pump against higher pressure in
the arteries and eventually suffers from the increase in
workload.
HEART PROBLEM RELATED TO KIDNEY
FAILURE
How are kidney disease share two of the same main causes
Diabetes
Heart blood pressure

Diabetes
High blood glucose from diabetes can damage your blood
vessels and the nerve that control your heart and blood
vessels.
The longer you have diabetes, the higher chances that you will
develop heart disease.
People with diabetes tent to develop heart disease at a
younger age than people without diabetes.
In adult with diabetes the most common causes of death are
heart disease and stroke.
High blood pressure
Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against
the wall of your blood vessels.
With high blood pressure your heart work harder to pump
blood which is strain your heart.
High blood pressure can damaged your blood vessels.
If high blood pressure damages the small blood vessels in
your kidney, your kidney will not filter your blood as well
as they should.
High blood pressure is not only a causes of kidney
disease.
When you have damaged kidney may be unable to filter
extra water and salt from your body.
CARDIOMEGALY
Cardiomegaly is a medical condition in which the heart
is enlarged.
It is more commonly referred to as an enlarged heart.
The causes of cardiomegaly may vary.
Many times this condition result from high blood
pressure (hypertension) or coronary artery disease.
INTRAVASCULAR FLUID OVERLOAD
The opposite condition is hypovolemic, which is too little
fluid volume in the blood.
Fluid volume excess in the intravascular compartment
occurs due to an increase in total body sodium content
an a consequent increase in extracellular body water.