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Subject : health-sciences
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1. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






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






3. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






4. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






5. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






6. What causes unstable angina?






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






8. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






9. What causes acute endocarditis?






10. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






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






12. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






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






14. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






15. Where is the coarctation in infantile coarctation of the aorta?






16. What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis?






17. What are Osler nodes?






18. What is the most common cause of RHF? What are others?






19. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






20. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






21. What drug relieves stable angina?






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






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






24. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






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






26. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






27. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






29. What is systolic dysfx?






30. Friction rub and chest pain.






31. What always follows necrosis?






32. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






33. What does granulation tissue contain?






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






35. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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






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






38. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






39. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






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






41. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






42. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






44. Systolic ejection click followed by crescendo - decrescendo murmur.






45. What is Loeffler syndrome?






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






47. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






48. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






49. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






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