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Subject : health-sciences
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1. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






2. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






3. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






4. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






5. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






6. What causes heart failure cells?






7. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






8. What is an Aschoff body?






9. How do beta blockers tx MI?






10. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






11. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






12. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






14. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






15. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






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






17. How do nitrates tx MI?






18. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






19. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






20. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






21. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






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






23. What maintains patency of the PDA?






24. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-24 hours after an MI?






25. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






26. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






27. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






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






29. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






30. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






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






32. What always follows necrosis?






33. What distinguishes stenosis caused by chronic rheumatic heart disease from wear and tear aortic stenosis?






34. What is diastolic dysfx?






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






36. What are the clinical features of RHF?






37. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






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






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






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






41. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






42. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






43. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






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






45. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






46. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






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






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






49. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






50. What are the tx for MI?