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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






2. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






3. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






4. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






5. What are the two effects of ATII?






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






7. Dyspnea - PND - orthopnea - crackles - fluid rentention - heart failure cells.






8. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






10. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






11. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






12. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






13. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






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






15. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






16. What drug relieves stable angina?






17. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






18. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






19. What is the tx for LHF?






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






21. Lower extremity cyanosis later in life - holostystolic machine like murmur.






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






23. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






24. What are the cancers that most commonly metastasize to the heart?






25. What are Janeway lesions?






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






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






28. How does stable angina present?






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






30. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






31. What causes heart failure cells?






32. What causes a mid - systolic click followed by a regurgitation murmur?






33. What is the major cause of MI?






34. What maintains patency of the PDA?






35. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






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






37. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






38. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






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






40. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






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






42. What is the most common tumor of the heart?






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






44. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






45. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have the mitral valve?






46. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






47. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






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






49. What is a Quincke pulse?






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