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Subject : health-sciences
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1. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






2. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






3. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






4. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






5. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






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






7. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






8. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






9. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






10. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






11. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






12. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






13. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






14. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






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






16. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






17. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






18. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






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






20. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






21. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






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






23. What are the two effects of ATII?






24. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






25. What is the tx for VSD?






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






27. How do nitrates tx MI?






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






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






30. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






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






32. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






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






34. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






35. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






36. What are the clinical features of RHF?






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






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






39. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






40. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






41. Which coronary artery supplies the anterior wall and anterior septum?






42. What is an Anitschow cell?






43. With what virus is PDA associated?






44. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






45. What is the 1day-1wk -1mo mneumonic for MI?






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






47. Which congenital heart defect is associated with maternal diabetes?






48. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






49. What is the basic principle of CHF?






50. In which chamber of the heart are cardiac myxomas found?