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Subject : health-sciences
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1. How does MI cause LHF?






2. How does ischemia cause LHF?






3. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






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






5. Small - sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged on closure of valve leaflets in a pt w/metastatic colon cancer?






6. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






7. When does the heart have dark discoloration post MI?






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






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






10. What causes prinzmetal angina?






11. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






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






13. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






14. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






16. What is the most common cause of infectious endocarditis?






17. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






18. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






19. Sudden death in a young athlete.






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






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






22. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






23. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






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






25. What causes unstable angina?






26. In which chamber of the heart are cardiac myxomas found?






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






28. What is the definition of ischemia?






29. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






30. When do troponin levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






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






32. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






34. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






35. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






36. What is the basic principle of CHF?






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






38. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






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






40. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






41. How does reperfusion injury occur?






42. Friction rub and chest pain.






43. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






44. What are the sx of pericardiits?






45. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






46. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






47. What are the cancers that most commonly metastasize to the heart?






48. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






49. EKG for stable angina?






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