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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the most common cause of infectious endocarditis?






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






3. What are Osler nodes?






4. What causes a mid - systolic click followed by a regurgitation murmur?






5. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






6. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-7 days after an MI?






7. What are the Jones criteria?






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






9. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






10. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






11. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






12. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






13. What causes heart failure cells?






14. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






15. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






16. What is the main cause of MV regurg? What are other causes?






17. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






18. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






19. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






20. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






21. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






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






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






24. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






25. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






26. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






27. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






28. What is an Aschoff body?






29. When does the heart have dark discoloration post MI?






30. What complication occurs 1-3 days post MI?






31. How does reperfusion injury occur?






32. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






33. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






34. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






35. What is the most common primary cardiac tumor in children? Is it malignant or benign?






36. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






37. What causes prinzmetal angina?






38. Return of O2 and inflammatory cells cause FR generation - further damaging myocytes.






39. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






40. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






41. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






44. What causes unstable angina?






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






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






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






48. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






49. What is an important complication of ASD?






50. What is the 1day-1wk -1mo mneumonic for MI?