Atlas of Heart Anatomy and Development

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. 

​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.​