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Subject : health-sciences
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1. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






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






3. What are heart failure cells?






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






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






6. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






7. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






8. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






9. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






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






11. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






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






13. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






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






15. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






16. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






17. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






18. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






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






20. How does O2 tx MI?






21. What are the complications that occur months after an MI?






22. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






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






24. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






25. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






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






27. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






28. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






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






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






31. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






32. What is the tx for VSD?






33. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






34. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






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






36. What causes the nutmeg color in nutmeg liver?






37. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






38. What effect does mitral stenosis have on the heart chambers?






39. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






40. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have the mitral valve?






41. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






42. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






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






44. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






46. How does MI cause LHF?






47. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






48. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






49. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






50. What is the most comon cause of aortic regurg? What are the other causes?