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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the only Jones criteria that doesn't resolve with time?






2. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






3. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






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






5. What is diastolic dysfx?






6. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






7. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






8. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






10. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






11. What determines the extent of shunting and cyanosis in tetralogy of fallot?






12. What are the HACEK organisms? With what condition are they associated?






13. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






14. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






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






16. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






17. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






18. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






19. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-7 days after an MI?






20. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






21. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






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






23. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






24. What causes heart failure cells?






25. What is an important complication of ASD?






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






27. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






28. What type of vegetations does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis) cause?






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






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






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






32. How does MI cause LHF?






33. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






34. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






35. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






36. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






37. How does ischemia cause LHF?






38. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






39. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






40. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






41. What is the definition of ischemia?






42. What are the complications that occur months after an MI?






43. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






44. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






45. What always follows necrosis?






46. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






47. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






48. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






49. What is an Aschoff body?






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