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Subject : health-sciences
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1. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






2. What is the most common cause of RHF? What are others?






3. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






4. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






5. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






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






8. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






9. What distinguishes stenosis caused by chronic rheumatic heart disease from wear and tear aortic stenosis?






10. What does granulation tissue contain?






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






12. What causes prinzmetal angina?






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






14. What are the sx of pericardiits?






15. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






16. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






17. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






18. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






19. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






20. What is the basic principle of CHF?






21. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






22. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






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






24. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






25. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






27. What are the two effects of ATII?






28. What causes the dependent pitting edema in RHF?






29. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






31. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






32. What is an Anitschow cell?






33. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






34. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






35. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






36. What are the complications that occur months after an MI?






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






38. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






40. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






41. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






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






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






44. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






45. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






46. What are the Jones criteria?






47. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






48. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






49. What are Janeway lesions?






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