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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What do the starling forces determine






2. What does the atria release in response to inc blood volume and atrial pressure






3. What causes the midsystolic click






4. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






5. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






6. What causes tet of fallot?






7. congenital heart defect with marfan's






8. sawtooth wave

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






10. tearing chest pain radiation to the back - associated with marfan






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

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12. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






13. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






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






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






16. Why is there edema after burns or during infection






17. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






18. What is the S2 sound?






19. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






20. How does aldosterone raise MAP






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






22. EDV - ESV






23. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






24. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






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






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






27. benign - painful - red - blue tumor under fingernails from smooth muscle cells






28. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






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






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






31. What is the cushing triad?






32. The carotid sinus transmits along which nerve?






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






34. What is the formula for EF?






35. The cause of cardiac dilation?






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






37. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






38. What channels do the the pacemaker cells lack?






39. What are the systolic heart sounds






40. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






41. congenital heart defect with 22q11






42. What does TAPVR stand for






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






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






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






46. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






47. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






48. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






49. How do beta blockers decrease contractility?






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