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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a late complication of what illness?






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






3. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






4. How long after pharyngitis does acute rheumatic fever occur?






5. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






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






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






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






9. What are the clinical features of RHF due to?






10. What is the major cause of MI?






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






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






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






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






15. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






16. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






17. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






18. Dense layer of elastic and fibrotic tissue in the endocardium.






19. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






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






21. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






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






23. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






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






25. What drug relieves stable angina?






26. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






27. How does reperfusion injury occur?






28. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






29. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






30. What are heart failure cells?






31. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






32. What are the sx of right - to - left shunt?






33. At What age does wear and tear aortic stenosis present? What congenital disease hastens the onset?






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






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






36. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






38. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






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






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






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






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






43. How does O2 tx MI?






44. What always follows necrosis?






45. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






46. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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






48. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






49. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






50. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?