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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






2. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






3. Small - sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged on closure of valve leaflets in a pt w/metastatic colon cancer?






4. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






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






7. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






8. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






9. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






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






11. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






12. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






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






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






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






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






17. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






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






19. What are the cancers that most commonly metastasize to the heart?






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






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






22. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






23. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






24. What effect does dilated cardiomyopathy have on the heart?






25. What is molecular mimicry?






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






27. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






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






29. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






30. What are Janeway lesions?






31. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






32. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






33. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






34. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






35. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






36. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






37. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






38. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






39. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






40. With what disease is infantile coarctation of the aorta associated?






41. What are Osler nodes?






42. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






43. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






44. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






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






46. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






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






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






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






50. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?