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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. which heart valves are afected most in rheumatic heart diseease






2. What does autoregulation do?






3. What is the most common cause of MI






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






5. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






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






7. What is the formula for EF?






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






9. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






10. Which sympathetic receptors raise MAP






11. highly lethal malignancy of the liver - associated with vinyl chloride - arsenic - and thorosrast exposure






12. Mitral stenosis is most often secondary to which condition?






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






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






15. disease of elastic arteries and large and medium sized muscular arteries






16. What happens with a decrease of extracellular Na






17. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






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






19. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






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






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






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






23. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






24. Which kind of infarct show ST elevation - and/or pathologic Q waves






25. What does HTN predispose to?






26. CO x Total peripheral resistance






27. How does aldosterone raise MAP






28. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






29. exaggerated decrease in pulse during inspiration.


30. What channels do the the pacemaker cells lack?






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






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






33. The cause of cardiac dilation?






34. what percentage of HTN is secondary to renal disease?






35. sawtooth wave


36. congenital heart defect with 22q11






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






38. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






39. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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






41. Which murmur is characteristic of mitral/tricuspid regurg?






42. What does T wave inversion indicated?






43. bacterial endocarditis - previously normal valves - rapid onset - Which bacteria?






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






45. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






46. in the JVP - What is the c wave?






47. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






48. What happens in phase 2 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






49. congenital heart defect with turner's






50. In what disease states is blood viscosity increased?