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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Most common vasculitis affecting medium and large arteries






2. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






3. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






4. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






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






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






7. What can cause mitral prolapse?






8. How does aldosterone raise MAP






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






10. What is the difference between the fetal and neonatal direction of blood flow in a patent ductus arteriosus






11. friction rub - 3-5 days post MI






12. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






13. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






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






15. PROVe






16. most common heart tumor






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






18. which heart valves are afected most in rheumatic heart diseease






19. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






20. What does the LAD supply?






21. no relation between p waves and QRS intervals - treatment and predisposing factor






22. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






23. What does the starling curve show?






24. What channels do the the pacemaker cells lack?






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






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






27. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






28. port wine stains on face - intracerebral AVM - siezures - early onset glaucoma - congenital






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






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






31. What does HTN predispose to?






32. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






33. EDV - ESV






34. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






35. What is indicated when CO and venous return are equal?






36. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






37. Fatal arrhythmia






38. What are tendinous xanthoma - atheromas - and corneal arcus signs of?






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






40. What is the cushing triad?






41. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






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

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43. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






44. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






45. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






46. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






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






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






49. In a lateral wall infarct - which artery is effected - and which leads show Q waves?






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