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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






2. Which class of drugs decrease preload






3. What does the atria release in response to inc blood volume and atrial pressure






4. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






5. Given P = QR - what factors influence resistance?






6. The 7 complications of MI

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7. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






8. EDV - ESV






9. exaggerated decrease in pulse during inspiration.

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10. How does acidosis affect contractility?






11. In the evolution of an MI - when the risk for free wall rupture - tamponade - papillary muscle rupture - or interventricular septal rupture the hightest? Why?






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






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






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






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






16. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






17. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






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






19. Which class of drugs decrease the murmur heard in aortic regurg?






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






21. What does the starling curve show?






22. sawtooth wave

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






24. MAP is also known as






25. What causes the murmur heard in tricuspid regurg to enhance






26. What are anitschkow's cells






27. Rank the pacemakers cells






28. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






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

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30. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






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






32. In an inferior wall infarct - which artery is affected and which leads show Q waves






33. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






34. What causes the early cyanosis in Tet of Fallot?






35. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






36. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






37. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






38. Which two mechanisms sense decrease MAP?






39. What causes orthopnea?






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






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






42. Chronic mitral stenosis can lead to what changes in size of the LA






43. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






44. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






45. In an anterior wall infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






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






47. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






48. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






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






50. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?