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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






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






3. What are the clinical features of endocarditis? What causes each feature?






4. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






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






6. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






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






8. What are the HACEK organisms? With what condition are they associated?






9. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






10. What is the basic principle of CHF?






11. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






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






13. How does O2 tx MI?






14. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






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






16. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






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






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






19. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






21. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






22. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






23. What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis?






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






25. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






26. What is the most common valve infected by S aureus?






27. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






28. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






29. What is the most common primary cardiac tumor in adults? Is it malignant or benign?






30. What are the causes of LHF?






31. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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32. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






33. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






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






36. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






37. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






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






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






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






41. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






42. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






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






44. Friction rub and chest pain.






45. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






46. What causes a mid - systolic click followed by a regurgitation murmur?






47. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






48. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






50. What causes heart failure cells?