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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. what percentage of HTN is secondary to renal disease?






2. pulmonary veins drain into right heart circulation (SVC - coronary sinus)






3. What causes tet of fallot?






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






5. EDV - ESV






6. What happens in phase 0 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






7. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






8. acute - self limiting necrotizing vasculitis in children associated with fever - conjunctivitis - strawberry tongue - desquamatous skin rash - lymphadenitis - coronary sinus aneurysms. Seen in asians






9. The cause of cardiac dilation?






10. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






11. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






12. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






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






14. Which bacteria causes endocarditis in the presence of colon cancer






15. benign capillary skin papules in AIDS patients mistaken for kaposi sarcoma - caused by bartonella henselae






16. What does HTN predispose to?






17. S3 - dilated heart on US - balloon appearance on CXR - eccentric hypertrophy






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






19. What is the S1 sound?






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






21. What is the S2 sound?






22. Rank the following by speed of conduction - av node - atria - purkinjee - ventricles






23. In an EKG - What is the QT interval?






24. SV CAP means?






25. What happends in phase 1 of the ventricular cardiac action potential?






26. If HR is too fast (V tach) what happens during diastole?






27. On the cardiac cycle graph - on which corners do the opening and closing of the aortic and mitral valves occur?






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






29. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






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






31. Rank the pacemakers cells






32. necrotizing granulomas in lung and upper airways - nectrotizing GN - small vessel vasculitis


33. Hyperplastic onion skinning






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






35. Left to right shunts are more common in babies or kids?






36. In the evolution of an MI - when the risk for free wall rupture - tamponade - papillary muscle rupture - or interventricular septal rupture the hightest? Why?






37. What kind of infarct show ST depression






38. When does EF decrease






39. cavernous lymphangioma of the neck - associated with turner's






40. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






41. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






42. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






43. What causes the early cyanosis in Tet of Fallot?






44. In the cardiac cycle - which period has the highest 02 consumption?






45. dyspnea - fatigue - edema and rales - multiple causes






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






47. What does hypoxia cause in the lung versus other tissues?






48. What do the starling forces determine






49. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






50. When and why is the S3 sound heard?