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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






2. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






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






4. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






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






6. What is the foundation of a scar?






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






8. What causes acute endocarditis?






9. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






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






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






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






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






14. What complication occurs 1-3 days post MI?






15. How does reperfusion injury occur?






16. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






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






20. What is the only Jones criteria that doesn't resolve with time?






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






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






23. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






24. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






25. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






26. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






27. What is the definition of ischemia?






28. What is cardiogenic shock?






29. If a pt has an endocarditis caused by Streptococcus bovis - what underlying condition should you test for?






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

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






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






33. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






34. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






35. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






36. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






37. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






38. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






39. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






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






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






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






43. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






44. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






45. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






46. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






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






48. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






49. Small - sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged on closure of valve leaflets in a pt w/metastatic colon cancer?






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