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Subject : health-sciences
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1. With what virus is PDA associated?






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






3. What always follows necrosis?






4. What are the sx of pericardiits?






5. When does the heart have dark discoloration post MI?






6. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






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






8. What is diastolic dysfx?






9. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






10. What are the two effects of ATII?






11. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






12. What are the tx for MI?






13. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






14. What is an Aschoff body?






15. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






16. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?






17. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






18. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






19. What are the causes of LHF?






20. What is the major cause of MI?






21. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






22. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






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






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






25. How long can cardiac myocytes be deprived of oxygen before they become irreversibly injured?






26. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






27. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






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






30. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






31. How does O2 tx MI?






32. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






33. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






34. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






35. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






36. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






37. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






38. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






39. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






40. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






41. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






42. With what disease is infantile coarctation of the aorta associated?






43. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






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






45. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






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






47. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






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






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






50. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?