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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. decrease blood flow to the skin due to arteriolar vasospasm in cold temp - emotional stress - also in SLE and CREST


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






3. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






4. What are anitschkow's cells






5. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






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






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






8. EDV is also known as






9. bacterial endocarditis - previously normal valves - rapid onset - Which bacteria?






10. Inspiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds?






11. On the cardiac cycle graph - on which corners do the opening and closing of the aortic and mitral valves occur?






12. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






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






14. What is the early and late lesion in rheumatic heart disease






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






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


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






18. congenital heart defect with 22q11






19. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by catecholamines and






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






21. Rank the pacemakers cells






22. What does HTN predispose to?






23. Weak pulses - notching of the ribs on xray - HTN in upper extremeties and weak peripheral pulses






24. highly lethal malignancy of the liver - associated with vinyl chloride - arsenic - and thorosrast exposure






25. immune mediated transmural vasculitis with fibrinoid necrosis - small and medium vessels - renal and viscera - not pulm arteries - hep B seropos in 30% of pts






26. What causes the cushing reflex and why






27. What does the LAD supply?






28. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






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






30. What are the systolic heart sounds






31. When does EF decrease






32. Which two mechanisms sense decrease MAP?






33. What does hypoxia cause in the lung versus other tissues?






34. in the JVP - What is the v wave?






35. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






36. disease of elastic arteries and large and medium sized muscular arteries






37. exaggerated decrease in pulse during inspiration.


38. What does T wave inversion indicated?






39. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






40. What is the definition of HTN?






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


42. What is the most common cause of MI






43. EDV - ESV






44. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






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






46. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






47. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






48. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by Ach or adenosine?






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






50. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?