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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






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






3. Wegener's presentation






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






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






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






7. What is the classic X ray finding for tet of fallot?






8. What do patients die early from in rheumatic heart disease?






9. serum marker for wegener's






10. what happens to capillaries in lymphatic blockage






11. Where is the most posterior portion of the heart and What can it cause?






12. What do the starling forces determine






13. What does the U wave indicated?






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






15. PCWP is an estimate of...






16. What causes aortic regurg






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






18. How does aldosterone raise MAP






19. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






20. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






21. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






22. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






23. CO x Total peripheral resistance






24. systolic - diastolic






25. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






26. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






27. Wegener's tx






28. In an anterolateral infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






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






30. in the JVP - What is the v wave?






31. Rank the following by speed of conduction - av node - atria - purkinjee - ventricles






32. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






33. smaller vegetations - congenitally abnormal or diseased valves - sequela of dental procedures. Insidious onset






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






35. Most common vasculitis affecting medium and large arteries






36. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






37. moncekberg






38. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






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






40. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






41. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






42. Which organ gets the largest share of systemic cardiac output






43. What is the cushing triad?






44. Equilibration of diastolic pressures in all 4 chambers - decreased CO from compression of heart by fluid in pericardium






45. Rank the pacemakers cells






46. Which enzyme rises after 4 hours and is elevated for 7 to 10 days after an MI?






47. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






48. What can cause mitral prolapse?






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






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