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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






3. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






4. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






5. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?






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






7. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






8. Which coronary artery supplies the posterior wall of the LV and posterior septum?






9. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






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






11. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






12. How does reperfusion injury occur?






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






14. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






15. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






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






17. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






18. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






19. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






20. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






21. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






22. What is an Anitschow cell?






23. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






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






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






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






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






28. What are the Jones criteria?






29. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






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






31. What is the definition of ischemia?






32. What are the clinical features of RHF due to?






33. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






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






35. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






36. What is the most common cause of infectious endocarditis?






37. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






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






39. What makes the MV prolapse murmur louder? Why?






40. How does MI cause LHF?






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






42. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






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






44. What complications occur 4-7 days post MI?






45. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






46. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






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






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






49. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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