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1. What type of ASD is associated w/Down syndrome?






2. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






3. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






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






5. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






6. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have on the aortic valve?

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7. What always follows necrosis?






8. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






9. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






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






11. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






12. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






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






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






15. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






16. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






17. What gross and microscopic changes occur months after an MI?






18. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






20. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






21. What is the tx for LHF?






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






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






24. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






25. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






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






27. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






28. How long after pharyngitis does acute rheumatic fever occur?






29. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






30. What causes unstable angina?






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






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






33. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






34. How do nitrates tx MI?






35. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






36. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






37. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






38. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






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






40. What are the Jones criteria?






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






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






43. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






44. What are Osler nodes?






45. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






46. What are the sx of pericardiits?






47. What is Loeffler syndrome?






48. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






49. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






50. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?