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Subject : health-sciences
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1. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






2. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






3. What is an Anitschow cell?






4. What are the forward and backward sx of LHF?






5. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






6. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






7. What is the tx for VSD?






8. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?






9. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






10. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






11. What is cardiogenic shock?






12. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






13. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






14. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






15. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






16. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






17. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






18. What are the clinical features of endocarditis? What causes each feature?






19. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






20. What are Osler nodes?






21. What causes heart failure cells?






22. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?






23. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






24. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






25. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






26. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






27. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






28. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






29. Which congenital heart defect is associated with maternal diabetes?






30. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






31. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






32. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






33. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






34. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






35. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






36. How do nitrates tx MI?






37. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






38. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






39. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






40. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






41. How does MI cause LHF?






42. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






43. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






44. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






45. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






46. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






47. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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48. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-24 hours after an MI?






49. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






50. What are the sx of pericardiits?