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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






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






3. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






4. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






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






6. What is the most common tumor of the heart?






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






8. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






9. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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






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






12. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






13. What are the complications of mitral valve prolapse? Are they common?






14. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






15. What are the causes of LHF?






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






17. What is an Aschoff body?






18. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






19. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






20. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






21. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






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






23. What is the foundation of a scar?






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






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






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






27. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






28. What are the sx of pericardiits?






29. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






30. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






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






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






33. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






34. What is diastolic dysfx?






35. What maintains patency of the PDA?






36. What is the tx for LHF?






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






38. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






39. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






40. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






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






42. What are the HACEK organisms? With what condition are they associated?






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






44. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






45. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






46. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






47. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






48. What is systolic dysfx?






49. What is Dressler syndrome? When does it occur?






50. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?