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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






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






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






4. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






5. What is the basic principle of CHF?






6. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






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






8. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






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






10. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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11. What causes prinzmetal angina?






12. 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.






13. What are the tx for MI?






14. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






15. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






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






18. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






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






20. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






21. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






22. What is the most common tumor of the heart?






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






24. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






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






26. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






27. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






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






29. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






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






31. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for Dressler syndrome? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






32. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






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






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






35. What maintains patency of the PDA?






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






37. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






38. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






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






40. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






41. What is the major cause of MI?






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






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






44. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






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






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






47. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






48. What are heart failure cells?






49. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






50. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?