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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






3. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






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






5. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






6. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






7. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






8. Lower extremity cyanosis later in life - holostystolic machine like murmur.






9. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






10. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






11. What is a water - hammer pulse?






12. What are the sx of right - to - left shunt?






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






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






15. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






16. What are the sx of pericardiits?






17. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






18. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






19. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






20. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






21. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






22. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






24. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






25. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






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






27. What are the tx for MI?






28. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






29. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






30. What causes prinzmetal angina?






31. What is an important complication of ASD?






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






33. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






34. What are the two effects of ATII?






35. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






36. How does reperfusion injury occur?






37. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






39. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






40. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






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






42. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






43. What is molecular mimicry?






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






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






46. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






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






49. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






50. What always follows necrosis?