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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by catecholamines and






2. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






3. If HR is too fast (V tach) what happens during diastole?






4. congenital heart defect in an infant with a diabetic mother?






5. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






6. EDV - ESV






7. pulmonary veins drain into right heart circulation (SVC - coronary sinus)






8. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






9. Endothelial malignancy of the skin assocated with HHV-8 and HIV

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






11. sudden death in young atheletes - S4 - apical impulses - outflow obstruction






12. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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

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14. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






15. acute - self limiting necrotizing vasculitis in children associated with fever - conjunctivitis - strawberry tongue - desquamatous skin rash - lymphadenitis - coronary sinus aneurysms. Seen in asians






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






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






18. In an anterolateral infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






19. What causes hepatomegaly?






20. What happens in phase 4 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






21. congenital heart defect with marfan's






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






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






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






25. Right to left shunts are more common in babies or kids?






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






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






28. What does the starling curve show?






29. Where is the most posterior portion of the heart and What can it cause?






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






31. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






32. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






33. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






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






35. When does EF decrease






36. What is the S1 sound?






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






38. What are anitschkow's cells






39. Do dihydropyridine or non - dihyrdropyridine Ca channel blockers decrease contractility






40. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






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

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42. What causes aortic regurg






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






44. What happens in phase 3 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






45. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






46. Left to right shunts are more common in babies or kids?






47. Central chemoreceptors do not respond directly to which parameter?






48. segmental thrombosing vasculitis of small and medium vessels in smokers with intermittent claudication - superficial nodular phlebitis - raynaud's - gangrene and severe pain - autoamputation of digits is possible

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






50. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?