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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. In the cardiac and vascular function curves - In what instance is the vascular curve shifted to the left?






2. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






3. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






4. What other sign is often present with congenital long QT syndrome - why?






5. Right to left shunts are more common in babies or kids?






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






7. What causes the cushing reflex and why






8. What do the starling forces determine






9. congenital heart defect in an infant with a diabetic mother?






10. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






11. What is the machine like murmur? What is the heart pathology and the predisposing causes






12. Central chemoreceptors do not respond directly to which parameter?






13. Which enzyme rises after 4 hours and is elevated for 7 to 10 days after an MI?






14. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






15. What do patients die early from in rheumatic heart disease?






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






17. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






18. The 7 complications of MI

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19. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






20. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






21. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






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






23. What is the danger of torsades to pointes?






24. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






25. in the JVP - What is the v wave?






26. PROVe






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






28. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by catecholamines and






29. What does autoregulation do?






30. benign cap hemangioma of infancy - spont regresses






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






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






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






34. What does FAN MY SKIN On Wednesday stand for?






35. Which area of the endocardium is especially vulnerable to infarction? Why?






36. What causes the midsystolic click






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






38. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






39. Churg Strauss - presentation and test






40. Given P = QR - what factors influence resistance?






41. What other congenital abnormality is necessary for life for a patient with transposition of the great vesses?






42. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






43. moncekberg






44. Which organ has ht highest blood flow per gram of tissue






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






46. clinical signs of cardiac tamponade






47. What does the starling curve show?






48. What is the classic X ray finding for tet of fallot?






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






50. What are the 5 T's of cyanoitc babies