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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the tx for LHF?






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






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






4. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






5. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






6. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?






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






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






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






10. What are the two effects of ATII?






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






12. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






14. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






15. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






16. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






17. What is the rate of mitral valve prolapse in the US?






18. What congenital heart defect often is present with infantile coarctation of the aorta?






19. What causes acute endocarditis?






20. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






21. What is Loeffler syndrome?






22. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






23. What are the minor critera of the Jones criteria?






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






25. What are the clinical features of RHF?






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






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






28. How long can cardiac myocytes be deprived of oxygen before they become irreversibly injured?






29. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






30. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






31. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






32. How does stable angina present?






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






34. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






35. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






36. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






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






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






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






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






41. How do beta blockers tx MI?






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






43. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






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






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






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






47. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






48. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






49. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






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