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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does granulation tissue contain?






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






3. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






4. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






5. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






6. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






7. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






8. Sudden death in a young athlete.






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






10. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






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






12. What type of vegetations does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis) cause?






13. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for rupture of a LV structure? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






14. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






15. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






16. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






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






18. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






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






21. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






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






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






24. How do nitrates tx MI?






25. What causes prinzmetal angina?






26. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






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






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






29. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






30. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?






31. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






32. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






33. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






34. Return of O2 and inflammatory cells cause FR generation - further damaging myocytes.






35. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






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






37. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






38. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






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






40. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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41. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






43. What is the tx for LHF?






44. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






45. What are the forward and backward sx of LHF?






46. What causes acute endocarditis?






47. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






49. What effect does dilated cardiomyopathy have on the heart?






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