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






2. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






3. What is diastolic dysfx?






4. What is an Aschoff body?






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






6. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






7. What causes prinzmetal angina?






8. What determines the extent of shunting and cyanosis in tetralogy of fallot?






9. What is the tx for LHF?






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






11. Chest pain the arises with exertion or emotional stress and is relieved by NG or rest. The pain lasts <20 min and radiates to the left arm or jaw. There is also diaphoresis and SOB - EKG shows ST- segment depression.






12. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






13. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






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






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






16. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






17. EKG for stable angina?






18. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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19. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






20. What are Osler nodes?






21. What causes acute endocarditis?






22. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






23. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






24. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






25. What are heart failure cells?






26. What type of vegetations form in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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






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






29. How does reperfusion injury occur?






30. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






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






32. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-24 hours after an MI?






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






34. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?






35. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






36. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






37. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






38. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






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






40. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






41. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






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






43. How does MI cause LHF?






44. What is the tx for VSD?






45. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






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






47. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






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






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






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







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