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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. When do you see extensive coagulative necrosis in an MI






2. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






3. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






4. How does aldosterone raise MAP






5. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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






7. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






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






9. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






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






11. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






12. What causes hepatomegaly?






13. What does the LAD supply?






14. most common primary cardiac tumor in adults - ball - valve obstruction in left atrium






15. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






16. What are anitschkow's cells






17. The cause of cardiac dilation?






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






19. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






20. Do you see elevaged ASO titers in rheumatic heart disease






21. What is the difference between the fetal and neonatal direction of blood flow in a patent ductus arteriosus






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






23. p - anca


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






25. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






26. lymphatic malignancy associated with persistant lymphadema - post radical mastectomy






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






28. What masks atrial repolarization?






29. no relation between p waves and QRS intervals - treatment and predisposing factor






30. smaller vegetations - congenitally abnormal or diseased valves - sequela of dental procedures. Insidious onset






31. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






32. What kind of infarct show ST depression






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






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


35. In an anterior wall infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






36. dilated tortous veins due to chronically inc venous pressure - poor wound healing - varicose ulcers






37. most common heart tumor






38. What causes orthopnea?






39. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






40. What does FEVERSS stand for in rheumatic heart disease






41. What is the definition of HTN?






42. congenital heart defect with turner's






43. In an EKG - What is the T wave?






44. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






45. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






46. In terms of starling forces - why does heart failure cause edema?






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






48. Fatal arrhythmia






49. which heart valves are afected most in rheumatic heart diseease






50. The aortic arch receptors transmit along which nerve?