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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






2. What effect does mitral stenosis have on the heart chambers?






3. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






4. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






5. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






6. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






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






8. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






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






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






11. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






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






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






14. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






15. At what point in development do congenital heart defects arise?






16. What is the most common valve infected by S aureus?






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






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






19. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






20. Episodic chest pain unrelated to exertion due to coronary vasospasm. ST- segment elevation. Relieved by NG or Ca channel blockers.






21. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






22. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






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






24. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






26. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






27. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






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






29. Which congenital heart defect is associated with maternal diabetes?






30. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






31. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






32. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






33. What tests show prior group A beta - hemolytic strep infection?






34. How do nitrates tx MI?






35. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






36. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






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






38. What determines the extent of shunting and cyanosis in tetralogy of fallot?






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






40. EKG for stable angina?






41. Tx for PDA?






42. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






44. What are Osler nodes?






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






46. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






47. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






48. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






49. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






50. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?