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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






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






3. What are the clinical features of RHF?






4. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






5. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






7. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






9. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






10. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






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






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






13. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






14. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






16. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






17. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






18. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






19. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






20. Small - sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged on closure of valve leaflets in a pt w/metastatic colon cancer?






21. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






22. What is cardiogenic shock?






23. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






25. Episodic chest pain unrelated to exertion due to coronary vasospasm. ST- segment elevation. Relieved by NG or Ca channel blockers.






26. What are the causes of LHF?






27. At what point in development do congenital heart defects arise?






28. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






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. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






32. What complication occurs 1-3 days post MI?






33. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






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






35. Systolic ejection click followed by crescendo - decrescendo murmur.






36. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






37. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for a mural thrombus? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






38. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






39. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






40. What are the complications of mitral valve prolapse? Are they common?






41. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






43. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






44. What is the cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in children?






45. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






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






47. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






48. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






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






50. Which coronary artery supplies the posterior wall of the LV and posterior septum?