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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. dyspnea - fatigue - edema and rales - multiple causes






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






3. machine murmer






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






5. p - anca


6. What does FROM JANE stand for in bacterial endocarditis?


7. What causes orthopnea?






8. What is the most common cause of right heart failure






9. Which valve is most commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis?






10. sawtooth wave


11. In what disease states is blood viscosity increased?






12. What is the definition of HTN?






13. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






14. Which artery supplies the inferior portion of the left ventricle and posterior septum?






15. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI


16. What is the progression of atherosclerosis?






17. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






18. What is the cushing triad?






19. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






20. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






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


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






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






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






25. Where are pacemaker cells?






26. How do catecholamines increase contractility?






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






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






29. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






30. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






31. What is the S1 sound?






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






33. What is the formula for EF?






34. In terms of starling forces - why does nephrotic syndrome or liver failure cause edems






35. PCWP is an estimate of...






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






37. What does autoregulation do?






38. What does TAPVR stand for






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






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






41. necrotizing granulomas in lung and upper airways - nectrotizing GN - small vessel vasculitis


42. What causes hepatomegaly?






43. The 7 complications of MI


44. What is the time frame for arrhythmia risk in the evolution of MI






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






46. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






47. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






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






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






50. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded