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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What maintains patency of the PDA?






2. What is systolic dysfx?






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






4. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






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






6. How long after pharyngitis does acute rheumatic fever occur?






7. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






8. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 weeks after an MI?






9. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






10. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






11. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






12. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






13. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






14. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






15. What is the most comon cause of aortic regurg? What are the other causes?






16. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






17. What determines the extent of shunting and cyanosis in tetralogy of fallot?






18. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






19. What drug relieves stable angina?






20. What is the characteristic finding on CXR in tetralogy of fallot?






21. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






22. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






23. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






24. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






25. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






26. What is a Quincke pulse?






27. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






28. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






29. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






30. What distinguishes stenosis caused by chronic rheumatic heart disease from wear and tear aortic stenosis?






31. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






32. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






33. What effect does mitral stenosis have on the heart chambers?






34. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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35. What are the HACEK organisms? With what condition are they associated?






36. What complications occur 4-7 days post MI?






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






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






39. What is the only Jones criteria that doesn't resolve with time?






40. What is an Aschoff body?






41. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






42. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






43. What is an important complication of ASD?






44. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






45. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






46. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






47. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






48. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






49. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






50. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?