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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Friction rub and chest pain.






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






3. What gross and microscopic changes occur months after an MI?






4. What is the rate of mitral valve prolapse in the US?






5. How does ischemia cause LHF?






6. Ostium primum ASD is associated with what congenital disorder?






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






8. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






9. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






10. What is the major cause of MI?






11. Swelling and pain in a large joint that resolves within days and migrates to involve another large joint.






12. What is diastolic dysfx?






13. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






14. What is the basic principle of CHF?






15. With what condition are rhabdomyomas associated?






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






17. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






18. What causes acute endocarditis?






19. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






20. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






21. What are the tx for MI?






22. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






23. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






24. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






25. Sudden death in a young athlete.






26. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






27. What valves are most commonly involved in chronic rheumatic heart disease?






28. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






29. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






30. Return of O2 and inflammatory cells cause FR generation - further damaging myocytes.






31. How does reperfusion injury occur?






32. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






33. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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34. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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35. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






36. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






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






38. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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39. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






40. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






41. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






42. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






43. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






44. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






45. What is systolic dysfx?






46. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






47. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






48. What are Janeway lesions?






49. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






50. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?