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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






2. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






3. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






4. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






5. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






6. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






7. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






9. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






10. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






11. What drug relieves stable angina?






12. How long after pharyngitis does acute rheumatic fever occur?






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






14. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






15. What is the cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in children?






16. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






17. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






18. What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis?






19. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






20. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






21. What makes the MV prolapse murmur louder? Why?






22. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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






24. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






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






26. What are the tx for MI?






27. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






28. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have on the aortic valve?

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29. What causes the nutmeg color in nutmeg liver?






30. Sudden death in a young athlete.






31. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






32. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






33. What is the definition of ischemia?






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






35. Which coronary artery supplies the anterior wall and anterior septum?






36. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






38. What is Loeffler syndrome?






39. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






40. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






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






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






43. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






44. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






45. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






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






47. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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48. What are the Jones criteria?






49. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






50. What are the clinical features of RHF?