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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






2. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






3. What is an Aschoff body?






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






5. Which coronary artery supplies the anterior wall and anterior septum?






6. What is migratory polyarthritis?






7. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






8. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






9. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






10. What are the minor critera of the Jones criteria?






11. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






12. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






13. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






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






15. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






16. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






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






18. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






19. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






20. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






21. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?






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






23. Systolic ejection click followed by crescendo - decrescendo murmur.






24. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






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






26. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






27. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






28. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






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






31. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






32. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






33. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






35. With what disease is infantile coarctation of the aorta associated?






36. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






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






38. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






39. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






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






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






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






44. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






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






46. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






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






48. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






49. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






50. What is the tx for LHF?