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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. In an acute MI - are there any visible changes via LM in the first 2-4 hours






2. PCWP is an estimate of...






3. What is the most common cause of MI






4. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






5. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






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






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






8. What does the U wave indicated?






9. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






10. What is the S1 sound?






11. Why is there edema after burns or during infection






12. In an anteroseptal infarct - which artery is effected - and which leads show Q waves?






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






14. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






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






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






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






18. lymphatic malignancy associated with persistant lymphadema - post radical mastectomy






19. The aortic arch receptors transmit along which nerve?






20. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






21. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






22. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






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


24. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






25. EDV is also known as






26. Which area of the endocardium is especially vulnerable to infarction? Why?






27. SV CAP means?






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






29. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






30. Where are pacemaker cells?






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






32. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






33. S3 - dilated heart on US - balloon appearance on CXR - eccentric hypertrophy






34. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






35. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






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






37. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






38. What causes aortic regurg






39. What does HTN predispose to?






40. Wegener's presentation






41. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






42. What does T wave inversion indicated?






43. When does EF decrease






44. How does aldosterone raise MAP






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






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






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






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


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






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