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Subject : health-sciences
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1. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






2. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






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

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4. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






5. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






6. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






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






8. What complications occur 4-7 days post MI?






9. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






10. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






11. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






12. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






13. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






14. What is an Aschoff body?






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






16. What are the complications of mitral valve prolapse? Are they common?






17. What is an Anitschow cell?






18. What always follows necrosis?






19. What causes heart failure cells?






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






21. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






22. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






23. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






24. What is the major cause of MI?






25. What are Osler nodes?






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






27. Swelling and pain in a large joint that resolves within days and migrates to involve another large joint.






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






29. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






30. What effect does dilated cardiomyopathy have on the heart?






31. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






32. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






34. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






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






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






37. What maintains patency of the PDA?






38. What coronary artery supplies the mitral valve papillary muscles?






39. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






40. What is a water - hammer pulse?






41. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






42. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






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






44. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






46. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






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






48. What are heart failure cells?






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






50. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?