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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the definition of ischemia?






2. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






3. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






4. What causes a mid - systolic click followed by a regurgitation murmur?






5. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






6. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






7. How do beta blockers tx MI?






8. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






9. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






10. What causes heart failure cells?






11. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






12. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






13. What always follows necrosis?






14. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






15. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






16. What is the most common primary cardiac tumor in children? Is it malignant or benign?






17. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






18. What is the most common cause of RHF? What are others?






19. What is the tx for VSD?






20. What is an Aschoff body?






21. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






22. What is Dressler syndrome? When does it occur?






23. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






24. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






25. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






26. What is the most common valve infected by S aureus?






27. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






28. What type of vegetations form in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






29. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






30. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






31. How does ischemia cause LHF?






32. What is an important complication of ASD?






33. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for Dressler syndrome? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






34. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






35. What makes the MV prolapse murmur louder? Why?






36. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






37. What is the most common cause of infectious endocarditis?






38. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






39. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






40. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






41. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






42. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






43. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






44. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






45. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for rupture of a LV structure? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






46. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






47. What are the causes of LHF?






48. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






49. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?






50. What tests show prior group A beta - hemolytic strep infection?