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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






2. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






3. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






4. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






5. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






6. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






7. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






8. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






9. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






10. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






11. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






12. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






13. How does ischemia cause LHF?






14. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-24 hours after an MI?






15. What two things happen when a blocked vessel is opened after an MI?






16. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?






17. What is migratory polyarthritis?






18. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






19. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






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






21. What is the characteristic finding on CXR in tetralogy of fallot?






22. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






23. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






24. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






26. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 weeks after an MI?






27. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






28. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






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






30. What are Janeway lesions?






31. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






32. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






33. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






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






35. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






36. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






37. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






38. What are the two effects of ATII?






39. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






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






41. What maintains patency of the PDA?






42. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






43. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






44. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






45. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






46. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






47. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






48. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






49. How does MI cause LHF?






50. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?