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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What happens in phase 4 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






2. When does extracellular calcium enter the cardiac muscle cells during contraction?






3. exaggerated decrease in pulse during inspiration.

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4. What does HTN predispose to?






5. What causes the murmur heard in tricuspid regurg to enhance






6. diaphoresis - N/V - severe retrosternal pain - pain in left arm/jaw - SOB - fatigue - adrenergic symptoms






7. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






8. What causes aortic stenosis






9. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






10. What is the early and late lesion in rheumatic heart disease






11. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






12. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






13. When do you find hemosiderin laden macrophages in the lungs?






14. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






15. What is the result of not have fast sodium channels in pacemaker cells?






16. What do the carotid and aortic bodies respond to?






17. What is indicated when CO and venous return are equal?






18. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






19. In an anterior wall infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






20. What causes aortic regurg






21. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






22. dilated tortous veins due to chronically inc venous pressure - poor wound healing - varicose ulcers






23. What causes ankle - sacral edema - jugular venous distention






24. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






25. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






26. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






27. What does the atria release in response to inc blood volume and atrial pressure






28. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by Ach or adenosine?






29. In an acute MI - are there any visible changes via LM in the first 2-4 hours






30. progressive lengthening of PR until beat is dropped - a p wave not followed by QRS






31. rate of 02 consumption/ arterial 02 - venous 02 ccontent=CO






32. What is the S1 sound?






33. What are tendinous xanthoma - atheromas - and corneal arcus signs of?






34. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI

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35. Which organ gets the largest share of systemic cardiac output






36. What are the four most common locations for atherosclerosis?






37. immune mediated transmural vasculitis with fibrinoid necrosis - small and medium vessels - renal and viscera - not pulm arteries - hep B seropos in 30% of pts






38. systolic - diastolic






39. Which murmur is heard in aortic stenosis?






40. In the cardiac and vascular function curves - In what instance is the vascular curve shifted to the right?






41. What is the progression of atherosclerosis?






42. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






43. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






44. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






45. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






46. serum marker for wegener's






47. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






48. What are the systolic heart sounds






49. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






50. Does eccentric hypertrophy or concentric hypertrophy cause systolic disfunction