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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






2. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






3. What are the causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in adults?






4. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






5. What does granulation tissue contain?






6. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






7. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






8. What are the tx for MI?






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






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






11. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






12. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






13. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






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






15. What causes the nutmeg color in nutmeg liver?






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






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






18. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






19. What is the definition of ischemia?






20. What effect does dilated cardiomyopathy have on the heart?






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






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






23. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






25. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






27. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






28. What are the two effects of ATII?






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






30. When do troponin levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






31. With what congenital heart defect is ADULT coarctation of the aorta associated?






32. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






33. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






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






35. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






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






37. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






39. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






40. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






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






42. What makes the MV prolapse murmur louder? Why?






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






44. What causes heart failure cells?






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






46. Tx for PDA?






47. What is systolic dysfx?






48. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






49. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






50. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?