Vortex cordis

The vortex cordis ( cardiac vertebra ) is a heart muscle structure at the apex of the heart ( apex cordis ). It arises from the bending of the superficial subepicardial muscles into the subendocardial inner muscle layer . It could play a central role in defibrillation and reactivation of the heart muscle.

Individual evidence

↑ Takashi Ashihara, Tsunetoyo Namba, Takenori Yao, Tomoya Ozawa, Ayaka Kawase, Takanori Ikeda, Kazuo Nakazawa, Makoto Ito: Vortex cordis as a mechanism of postshock activation: arrhythmia induction study using a bidomain model. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. Vol. 14, No. 3, 2003, pp. 295-302, doi : 10.1046 / j.1540-8167.2003.02408.x .

literature

Helga Fritsch, Wolfgang Kühnel: Inner organs (= pocket atlas anatomy. Vol. 2). 10th, revised and expanded edition. Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-13-492110-6 , pp. 18, 19.

[ashihara_et_al-1] Takashi Ashihara, Tsunetoyo Namba, Takenori Yao, Tomoya Ozawa, Ayaka Kawase, Takanori Ikeda, Kazuo Nakazawa, Makoto Ito: Vortex cordis as a mechanism of postshock activation: arrhythmia induction study using a bidomain model. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. Vol. 14, No. 3, 2003, pp. 295-302, doi : 10.1046 / j.1540-8167.2003.02408.x .