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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






2. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






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






4. What does granulation tissue contain?






5. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






6. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






7. How long can cardiac myocytes be deprived of oxygen before they become irreversibly injured?






8. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






11. What is the tx for VSD?






12. What is Dressler syndrome? When does it occur?






13. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






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






15. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






17. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






18. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






19. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






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






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






22. What are heart failure cells?






23. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






24. What are Janeway lesions?






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






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






27. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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






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






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






32. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






33. What causes unstable angina?






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






35. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






36. What are the tx for MI?






37. What is the definition of ischemia?






38. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






39. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






40. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






41. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






42. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






43. How do beta blockers tx MI?






44. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






45. How do nitrates tx MI?






46. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






47. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






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






49. What drug relieves stable angina?






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