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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






2. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






3. How does a patient with Tet of fallot learn to improve symptoms?






4. What causes orthopnea?






5. EDV is also known as






6. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






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






8. delta wave on ECG - accesory conduction pathway from atria to ventricles - reentry leading to supraventricular tachycardia






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






10. What happens in phase 2 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






11. PCWP is an estimate of...






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






13. What causes aortic regurg






14. What causes tet of fallot?






15. Which kind of infarct show ST elevation - and/or pathologic Q waves






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






17. What is the most common cause of right heart failure






18. In an EKG - What is the QRS complex?






19. congenital heart defect with turner's






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






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






22. which medications are used to maintain patency or close the ductus arteriosus?






23. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






24. Which two mechanisms sense decrease MAP?






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






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






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


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






29. What is sudden cardiac death most commonly due to...






30. What is the difference between adult and infantile type aortic coarctation?






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






32. What are the diastolic heart sounds?






33. When does EF decrease






34. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






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


36. What does autoregulation do?






37. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






38. pulmonary veins drain into right heart circulation (SVC - coronary sinus)






39. The aortic arch receptors transmit along which nerve?






40. What is the time frame for arrhythmia risk in the evolution of MI






41. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






42. Which murmur is characteristic of mitral/tricuspid regurg?






43. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






44. EDV - ESV






45. What causes aortic stenosis






46. most common heart tumor






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






48. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






49. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






50. What masks atrial repolarization?