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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?






2. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






3. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






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






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






6. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






7. How does ischemia cause LHF?






8. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






9. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






10. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






11. What congenital heart defect often is present with infantile coarctation of the aorta?






12. What is the cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in children?






13. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






14. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






15. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






16. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






18. What is the basic principle of CHF?






19. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






20. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






21. Sudden death in a young athlete.






22. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






23. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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24. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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25. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






26. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






27. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






28. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






29. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






30. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






31. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






32. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






33. What is the tx for LHF?






34. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have on the aortic valve?

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35. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






36. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






37. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






38. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






39. What is systolic dysfx?






40. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






41. What is Loeffler syndrome?






42. What type of ASD is associated w/Down syndrome?






43. What is migratory polyarthritis?






44. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






45. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






46. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






47. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






48. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for rupture of a LV structure? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






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






50. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?