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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






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






3. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






4. When does the heart have dark discoloration post MI?






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






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






7. How does subendocardial MI/ischemia present on EKG?






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






9. EKG for stable angina?






10. What is the main cause of MV regurg? What are other causes?






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






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






13. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






14. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






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






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






17. What are the clinical features of RHF?






18. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






19. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






20. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






21. What are the clinical features of endocarditis? What causes each feature?






22. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






23. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






24. What two things happen when a blocked vessel is opened after an MI?






25. What are the causes of LHF?






26. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






27. What is cardiogenic shock?






28. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






30. What are the clinical features of RHF due to?






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






32. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






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






35. What causes unstable angina?






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






37. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






38. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






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






40. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






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






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






43. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






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






46. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?






47. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






48. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






49. What are Janeway lesions?






50. Which coronary artery supplies the posterior wall of the LV and posterior septum?