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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






2. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






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






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






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






6. How do beta blockers tx MI?






7. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






9. What is a Quincke pulse?






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






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






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






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






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






15. Sudden death in a young athlete.






16. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






17. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






18. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






19. At What age does wear and tear aortic stenosis present? What congenital disease hastens the onset?






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






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






22. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






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






24. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






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






26. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






27. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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28. How does reperfusion injury occur?






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






30. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






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






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






33. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






34. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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35. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






36. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






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






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






39. What is the 1day-1wk -1mo mneumonic for MI?






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






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






42. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






43. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






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






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






46. What are the causes of LHF?






47. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






48. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






49. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






50. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?