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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






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






3. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






4. What is a Quincke pulse?






5. What is Loeffler syndrome?






6. What are the Jones criteria?






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






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






9. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






10. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






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






12. At What age does wear and tear aortic stenosis present? What congenital disease hastens the onset?






13. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






14. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






15. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






16. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






17. Sudden death in a young athlete.






18. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






19. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






20. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






21. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






22. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






23. Tx for PDA?






24. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






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






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






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






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






29. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






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






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






32. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






33. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






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






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






36. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






37. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






38. EKG for stable angina?






39. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






40. What is molecular mimicry?






41. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






42. What causes heart failure cells?






43. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






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






45. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






46. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






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






48. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






49. How long can cardiac myocytes be deprived of oxygen before they become irreversibly injured?






50. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?