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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the S2 sound?






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






3. The cause of cardiac dilation?






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






5. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






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






7. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






8. What is the cushing triad?






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






10. What is the danger of torsades to pointes?






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






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






13. What does HTN predispose to?






14. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






15. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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






17. What is the result of not have fast sodium channels in pacemaker cells?






18. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






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






20. When do you find hemosiderin laden macrophages in the lungs?






21. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






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






23. How does acidosis affect contractility?






24. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






25. cavernous lymphangioma of the neck - associated with turner's






26. What does T wave inversion indicated?






27. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






28. Hyperplastic onion skinning






29. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






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






31. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






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






33. rate of 02 consumption/ arterial 02 - venous 02 ccontent=CO






34. p - anca

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35. How do beta blockers decrease contractility?






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






37. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






38. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






39. Equilibration of diastolic pressures in all 4 chambers - decreased CO from compression of heart by fluid in pericardium






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






41. What are anitschkow's cells






42. In the cardiac cycle - which period has the highest 02 consumption?






43. The 7 complications of MI

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44. When does extracellular calcium enter the cardiac muscle cells during contraction?






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






46. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






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






48. Irregularly irregular ECG - no p waves: dx and treatment






49. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






50. What causes tet of fallot?