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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






2. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






3. What type of ASD is associated w/Down syndrome?






4. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






5. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






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






7. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






8. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






9. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






10. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






11. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






12. What is the tx for LHF?






13. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






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






15. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






16. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






17. What is the major cause of MI?






18. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






19. With what condition are rhabdomyomas associated?






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






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






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






23. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






24. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






25. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






26. What is cardiogenic shock?






27. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






28. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






29. What causes heart failure cells?






30. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






31. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






32. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






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






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






35. What are the forward and backward sx of LHF?






36. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






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






38. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






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






40. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






41. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






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






43. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






44. What is a Quincke pulse?






45. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






46. What coronary artery supplies the mitral valve papillary muscles?






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






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






49. What are the minor critera of the Jones criteria?






50. How does ischemia cause LHF?