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Subject : health-sciences
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1. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






2. What is diastolic dysfx?






3. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






4. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






5. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






6. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






7. What are Osler nodes?






8. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






9. What is cardiogenic shock?






10. What is the tx for LHF?






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






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






13. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






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






15. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






16. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






18. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






19. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






20. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






21. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






22. What is an important complication of ASD?






23. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






24. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






25. What are the clinical features of RHF?






26. What is an Aschoff body?






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






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






29. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






30. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






31. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






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






33. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






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






36. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






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






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






39. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






40. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






41. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






42. What drug relieves stable angina?






43. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






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






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






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






47. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






48. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






49. What is the only Jones criteria that doesn't resolve with time?






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