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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are the causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in adults?






2. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






3. Friction rub and chest pain.






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






5. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






6. What distinguishes stenosis caused by chronic rheumatic heart disease from wear and tear aortic stenosis?






7. What is the most common valve infected by S aureus?






8. What is the most common cause of RHF? What are others?






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






10. What is a water - hammer pulse?






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






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






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






14. What is Loeffler syndrome?






15. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






16. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for a mural thrombus? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






17. What causes prinzmetal angina?






18. What is diastolic dysfx?






19. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






20. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






22. What are the sx of pericardiits?






23. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






24. Episodic chest pain unrelated to exertion due to coronary vasospasm. ST- segment elevation. Relieved by NG or Ca channel blockers.






25. What are the clinical features of endocarditis? What causes each feature?






26. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






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






28. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






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






30. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






31. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






32. What are Osler nodes?






33. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






34. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






36. What are the minor critera of the Jones criteria?






37. What two things happen when a blocked vessel is opened after an MI?






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






39. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






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






42. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






43. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






44. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






45. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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46. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






47. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






48. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






49. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






50. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?