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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






2. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






3. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






4. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






6. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






7. What is Dressler syndrome? When does it occur?






8. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have on the aortic valve?

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






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






11. Which congenital heart defect is associated with maternal diabetes?






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






13. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






14. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






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






16. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






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






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






19. What is the foundation of a scar?






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






21. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






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






23. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






24. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






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






26. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






27. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






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






29. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






30. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






31. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






32. At what point in development do congenital heart defects arise?






33. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






34. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






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






36. Where is the coarctation in infantile coarctation of the aorta?






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






38. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






39. Ostium primum ASD is associated with what congenital disorder?






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






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






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






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






44. How does stable angina present?






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






46. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






47. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






48. What type of ASD is associated w/Down syndrome?






49. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






50. How does subendocardial MI/ischemia present on EKG?