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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the foundation of a scar?






2. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






3. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






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






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






6. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






7. When do troponin levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






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






9. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






10. What congenital heart defect often is present with infantile coarctation of the aorta?






11. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






12. What are the Jones criteria?






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






14. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






15. What are the causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in adults?






16. What is the most common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy? What are other causes?






17. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






18. How does MI cause LHF?






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






20. What causes prinzmetal angina?






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






22. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-7 days after an MI?






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






24. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






25. What coronary arterysupplies the lateral wall of the LV?






26. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






27. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






28. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






29. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






30. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






31. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






32. Dense layer of elastic and fibrotic tissue in the endocardium.






33. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






34. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






36. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






37. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






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






39. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






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

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41. What is the rate of mitral valve prolapse in the US?






42. Which coronary artery supplies the posterior wall of the LV and posterior septum?






43. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






44. What does granulation tissue contain?






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






46. Lower extremity cyanosis later in life - holostystolic machine like murmur.






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






48. What drug relieves stable angina?






49. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






50. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?