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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






2. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






3. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






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






5. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






6. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






7. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






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






9. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






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






11. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-7 days after an MI?






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






13. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






14. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






15. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






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






17. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






18. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






20. What is diastolic dysfx?






21. What are the clinical features of RHF?






22. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






23. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






24. What are heart failure cells?






25. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






26. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






27. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






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






29. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






30. What causes prinzmetal angina?






31. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






32. What is Dressler syndrome? When does it occur?






33. How does MI cause LHF?






34. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






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






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






37. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






38. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






39. EKG for stable angina?






40. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






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






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






44. With what virus is PDA associated?






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






46. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






47. Ostium primum ASD is associated with what congenital disorder?






48. What is an Anitschow cell?






49. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






50. What causes mitral valve prolapse?