Where is the retroperitoneal space?
Is the urinary system retroperitoneal structure or intraperitoneal?
retroperitoneal
What is the function of the urinary system?
What are the structures of the urinary system?
What is the difference between the deep and outer muscles and deep muscles?
Outer muscles = anterior abdominal wall (in front of the peritoneal cavity)
- external oblique, internal oblique rectus abdominis, transversus abdominis
Deep muscles = Retroperitoneal (behind the organs and peritoneum)
- travsversus abdominis, quadratus lumborum, psoas major, iliacus
What are the retroperitoneal muscles?
Transversus abdomis (horizontal fibers coming from posteriorly and wraps all th way anteriorly), quadratus lumborum (vertical fibers, psoas major , ilacus
What direction does the transversus abdominis?
horizontal fibers coming from posteriorly and wraps all the way anteriorly
Which way does Quadratus Lumborum muscle go?
What is iliopsoas?
Iliacus and Psoas major
Where is the renal vein located at the hilum?
Most anteriorly, carries deoxygenated blood that has been detoxified by the kidney
- away from the kidney back towards to the heart
Where is the renal artery?
Found posterior to the renal artery
- carry oxygenated blood that has to be detoxified towards the kidney
Where are the ureters found?
Posterior to the kidneys
- bring urine away from the kidney down towards the urinary bladder
What is the renal capsule for?
specifically for the kidney
- connective tissue that kind of keep all of the kidney tissue together
What happens at the acetabulum?
Ilium, Ischium and Pubis join
What is the renal vein?
What is the location of the right abdominal renal artery?
Behind the IVC posterior
What is the location of the left renal vein?
Under the superior mesenteric artery
- the left renal vein is longer than the right renal vein
Where do the gonadal arteries?
What is the order of the arteries in the kidneys?
What is the order of the veins?
Blood filteration vessel filteration start?
In the renal corpuscle
How is the filteration happening?
What gets picked up in the renal capsule?
Water and molecules because the glomercular are leaky
- blood don’t come out
- water and waste products are called filterate which eventually becomes urine
How are concentration gradients maintained?