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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






2. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






3. delta wave on ECG - accesory conduction pathway from atria to ventricles - reentry leading to supraventricular tachycardia






4. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






5. The cause of pulmonary edema - paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea?






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






7. Where are pacemaker cells?






8. Churg Strauss - presentation and test






9. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






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






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






12. What channels do the the pacemaker cells lack?






13. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






14. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






15. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






16. thrombosis w/o necrosis - ST elevation - worsening chest pain at rest or with minimal exertion






17. port wine stains on face - intracerebral AVM - siezures - early onset glaucoma - congenital






18. Rank the pacemakers cells






19. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






20. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






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






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






23. What are the systolic heart sounds






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






25. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






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






27. What does TAPVR stand for






28. Fatal arrhythmia






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






30. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






31. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






32. Inspiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds?






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






34. How does a patient with Tet of fallot learn to improve symptoms?






35. EDV - ESV






36. What are anitschkow's cells






37. congenital heart defect with marfan's






38. Most common vasculitis affecting medium and large arteries






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






40. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






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






42. In an inferior wall infarct - which artery is affected and which leads show Q waves






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






44. What are aschoff bodies






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






46. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






47. In what disease states is blood viscosity increased?






48. sawtooth wave


49. skin rash on buttocks and legs - arthralgia - intestinal hemorrhage - abdominal pain - melena. Follows URI - IgA immune complex - most common childhood systemic vasculitis






50. CO x Total peripheral resistance