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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






2. Which murmur is heard with mitral prolapse?






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






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






5. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






6. systolic - diastolic






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






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






9. Does eccentric hypertrophy or concentric hypertrophy cause systolic disfunction






10. When do coronary arteries fill?






11. What other congenital abnormality is necessary for life for a patient with transposition of the great vesses?






12. What does the U wave indicated?






13. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






14. What happens in phase 4 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






15. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






16. What does the starling curve show?






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






18. What is the cushing triad?






19. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






20. most common heart tumor






21. Which organ has ht highest blood flow per gram of tissue






22. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






23. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






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






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






26. In the cardiac cycle - which period has the highest 02 consumption?






27. congenital heart defect withdown syndrome






28. highly lethal malignancy of the liver - associated with vinyl chloride - arsenic - and thorosrast exposure






29. What causes the cushing reflex and why






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






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






32. What is the definition of HTN?






33. coronary artery spasm - ST elevation






34. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






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






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






37. Fatal arrhythmia






38. dyspnea - fatigue - edema and rales - multiple causes






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






40. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






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






42. How do catecholamines increase contractility?






43. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






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






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






46. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






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






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






49. What causes orthopnea?






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