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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






2. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






3. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






5. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






6. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






7. How does MI cause LHF?






8. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






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






11. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






12. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






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






14. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?






15. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






16. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






17. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






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






19. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






20. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






21. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






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






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






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






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






26. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






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






28. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






29. Chest pain the arises with exertion or emotional stress and is relieved by NG or rest. The pain lasts <20 min and radiates to the left arm or jaw. There is also diaphoresis and SOB - EKG shows ST- segment depression.






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






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






32. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






33. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






34. Tx for PDA?






35. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






36. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






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






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






39. Ostium primum ASD is associated with what congenital disorder?






40. What maintains patency of the PDA?






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






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






43. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 weeks after an MI?






44. If a pt has an endocarditis caused by Streptococcus bovis - what underlying condition should you test for?






45. How do nitrates tx MI?






46. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






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






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






49. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






50. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.