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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






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






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






4. What is a water - hammer pulse?






5. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 weeks after an MI?






6. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






7. What is the tx for LHF?






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






9. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






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






11. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






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






14. What coronary arterysupplies the lateral wall of the LV?






15. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






16. How does ischemia cause LHF?






17. What is the main cause of MV regurg? What are other causes?






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






19. What congenital heart defect often is present with infantile coarctation of the aorta?






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






21. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?






22. With what condition are rhabdomyomas associated?






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






24. What is migratory polyarthritis?






25. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






26. What is the basic principle of CHF?






27. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






28. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






29. What is molecular mimicry?






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






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






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






33. What complications occur 4-7 days post MI?






34. What are the tx for MI?






35. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






36. How does stable angina present?






37. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






38. What is the definition of ischemia?






39. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






40. What is a Quincke pulse?






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






42. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






43. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






44. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






45. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






46. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?






47. What are Janeway lesions?






48. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






50. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?