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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






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






3. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






4. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






5. What are the sx of right - to - left shunt?






6. What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis?






7. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






8. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






9. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






10. What is the foundation of a scar?






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






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






13. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






14. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






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






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






17. What tests show prior group A beta - hemolytic strep infection?






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






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






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






21. What gross and microscopic changes occur months after an MI?






22. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






23. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






24. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






25. What are Janeway lesions?






26. What is the most comon cause of aortic regurg? What are the other causes?






27. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






28. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






29. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






30. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






31. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






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






33. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






34. What causes the dependent pitting edema in RHF?






35. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






36. How does reperfusion injury occur?






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






38. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






39. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






40. What is Loeffler syndrome?






41. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






42. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






43. When is an MI patent at highest risk for fibrionous pericarditis?






44. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






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






46. How does O2 tx MI?






47. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






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






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






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