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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. How does a patient with Tet of fallot learn to improve symptoms?






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






3. L to R shunt becomes R to L due to increase pulm pressures from original congenital heart defect


4. Why is there edema after burns or during infection






5. in the JVP - What is the a wave?






6. Which channel accounts for automaticity of the SA and AV nodes?






7. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






8. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






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






10. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI


11. What does HTN predispose to?






12. Wegener's tx






13. The cause of dyspnea on exertion?






14. What does T wave inversion indicated?






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






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






17. disruption of the vasa vasorum of aorta - dilation of aorta and valve ring - tree bark appearance (calcifications on aortic root)






18. What is the S2 sound?






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






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






21. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






22. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






23. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






24. What is the cushing triad?






25. Which murmur is heard with mitral prolapse?






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






27. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






28. What causes the murmur heard in MR to enhance?






29. retrosternal chest main with exertion - ST depression on ECG - likely due atherosclerosis






30. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






31. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






32. clinical signs of cardiac tamponade






33. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






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






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






36. pulseless disease - granulomatous thickening of the aortic arch and/or proximal great vessels - elev ESR - asian females > 40


37. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






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






39. What is association with fixed S2 splitting - does not increase with inspiration






40. Which valve is commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis from IV drug use and Which bacteria are most common?


41. In an EKG - What is the p wave?






42. What is the gold standard for dx of MI in the first 6 hours






43. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






44. What is the formula for EF?






45. Irregularly irregular ECG - no p waves: dx and treatment






46. What does the starling curve show?






47. Exercise - overtransfusiion and excitiment causes and increase in...?






48. what happens to capillaries in lymphatic blockage






49. The cause of cardiac dilation?






50. EDV - ESV