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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are the diastolic heart sounds?






2. most common primary cardiac tumor in children - associated with tuberous sclerosis






3. Does blood flow across the actual ASD account for abnormal heart sounds? What is the reason?






4. What is the progression of atherosclerosis?






5. Does eccentric hypertrophy or concentric hypertrophy cause systolic disfunction






6. Which sympathetic receptors raise MAP






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






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






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






10. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






11. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






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






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


14. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






15. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






16. What causes the midsystolic click






17. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






18. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






19. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






20. What is the formula for EF?






21. In normal S2 splitting - which valve closes first? What increases it?






22. The carotid sinus transmits along which nerve?






23. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






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






25. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






26. congenital heart defect withdown syndrome






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






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


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






30. What causes the murmur heard in MR to enhance?






31. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






32. What is the S2 sound?






33. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






34. What happens in phase 0 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






35. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






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






37. benign capillary skin papules in AIDS patients mistaken for kaposi sarcoma - caused by bartonella henselae






38. Wegener's presentation






39. Which murmur is heard with mitral prolapse?






40. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






41. systolic - diastolic






42. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






43. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






44. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






45. What is the definition of HTN?






46. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI


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






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






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






50. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?