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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






2. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






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






4. What drug relieves stable angina?






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






6. What are the complications that occur months after an MI?






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






8. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






9. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






10. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






11. Swelling and pain in a large joint that resolves within days and migrates to involve another large joint.






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






13. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






15. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






16. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






17. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






18. What are Janeway lesions?






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






20. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






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






22. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






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






24. What is the characteristic finding on CXR in tetralogy of fallot?






25. What are the sx of right - to - left shunt?






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






27. What is migratory polyarthritis?






28. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






29. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






30. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






31. In which chamber of the heart are cardiac myxomas found?






32. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






33. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






34. What valves are most commonly involved in chronic rheumatic heart disease?






35. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






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






37. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






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






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






41. How do nitrates tx MI?






42. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






43. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






44. What gross and microscopic changes occur months after an MI?






45. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






46. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






47. What are the clinical features of RHF due to?






48. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






49. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






50. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?