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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What masks atrial repolarization?






2. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






3. cavernous lymphangioma of the neck - associated with turner's






4. In terms of starling forces - why does nephrotic syndrome or liver failure cause edems






5. dilated tortous veins due to chronically inc venous pressure - poor wound healing - varicose ulcers






6. What is the early and late lesion in rheumatic heart disease






7. What does the U wave indicated?






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






9. What do the starling forces determine






10. What is the gold standard for dx of MI in the first 6 hours






11. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






12. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






13. What causes orthopnea?






14. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






15. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






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






17. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






18. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






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






20. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






21. On the cardiac cycle graph - on which corners do the opening and closing of the aortic and mitral valves occur?






22. What does the LAD supply?






23. thrombosis w/o necrosis - ST elevation - worsening chest pain at rest or with minimal exertion






24. congenital heart defect with marfan's






25. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






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






27. what happens to capillaries in lymphatic blockage






28. Fatal arrhythmia






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






30. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






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






32. Do dihydropyridine or non - dihyrdropyridine Ca channel blockers decrease contractility






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






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






35. What does autoregulation do?






36. wartiike - sterile vegetations occur on both sides of the valve - commonly causes mitral regurg. SLE causes it






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






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






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






40. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI


41. What are the diastolic heart sounds?






42. retrosternal chest main with exertion - ST depression on ECG - likely due atherosclerosis






43. What causes hepatomegaly?






44. What causes the midsystolic click






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






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






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






48. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






49. In an acute MI - are there any visible changes via LM in the first 2-4 hours






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