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Subject : health-sciences
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1. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






2. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






3. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






4. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






5. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






6. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






7. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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

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9. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






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






11. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






12. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






13. What makes the MV prolapse murmur louder? Why?






14. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?






15. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






16. How do beta blockers tx MI?






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

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18. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






19. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






20. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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21. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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22. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






23. What always follows necrosis?






24. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






25. How does subendocardial MI/ischemia present on EKG?






26. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






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






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






29. What are the causes of LHF?






30. How does MI cause LHF?






31. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






32. Episodic chest pain unrelated to exertion due to coronary vasospasm. ST- segment elevation. Relieved by NG or Ca channel blockers.






33. Tx for PDA?






34. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






35. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






36. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






37. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






38. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






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






40. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






41. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






42. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






43. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






44. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






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






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






47. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






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






49. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






50. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?