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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






2. What is a water - hammer pulse?






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






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






5. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






6. What is systolic dysfx?






7. What always follows necrosis?






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






9. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






10. What are Osler nodes?






11. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






12. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






13. What are the clinical features of RHF?






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






15. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






16. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






17. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






19. How does subendocardial MI/ischemia present on EKG?






20. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






21. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






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






23. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






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






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






26. What two things happen when a blocked vessel is opened after an MI?






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






28. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






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






30. What is the foundation of a scar?






31. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






32. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






33. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






34. How does reperfusion injury occur?






35. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






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






37. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






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






40. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






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






42. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






43. What is an important complication of ASD?






44. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






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






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






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






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






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






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