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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






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






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






4. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






6. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






7. What is the tx for VSD?






8. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






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






10. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






11. What maintains patency of the PDA?






12. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






13. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






14. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






15. Dense layer of elastic and fibrotic tissue in the endocardium.






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






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






18. What are heart failure cells?






19. What is molecular mimicry?






20. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






21. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






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






24. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






25. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






26. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






27. What drug relieves stable angina?






28. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






29. How does stable angina present?






30. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






31. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






32. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






34. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






35. What type of vegetations form in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






36. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






37. What is systolic dysfx?






38. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






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






40. What does rupture of the LV free wall cause?






41. What does granulation tissue contain?






42. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






43. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






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






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






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






47. What are the clinical features of RHF?






48. Where is the coarctation in infantile coarctation of the aorta?






49. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






50. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?