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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






2. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






3. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






5. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






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






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






8. What are the causes of LHF?






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






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






11. What are Osler nodes?






12. What tests show prior group A beta - hemolytic strep infection?






13. What are Janeway lesions?






14. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






15. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






16. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






18. How does ischemia cause LHF?






19. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






20. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






21. What does granulation tissue contain?






22. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






23. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






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






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






26. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






27. What is an Anitschow cell?






28. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






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






30. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






31. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






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






33. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






34. What does rupture of the LV free wall cause?






35. At what point in development do congenital heart defects arise?






36. If a pt has an endocarditis caused by Streptococcus bovis - what underlying condition should you test for?






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






38. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






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






40. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






41. What is Loeffler syndrome?






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






43. What is the major cause of MI?






44. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






45. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






46. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






47. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






48. With what virus is PDA associated?






49. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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