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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






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






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






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






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






6. What causes prinzmetal angina?






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






8. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






9. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






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






11. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






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






13. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






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






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






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






17. What are the cancers that most commonly metastasize to the heart?






18. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






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






20. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






21. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






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






23. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






25. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






26. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






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






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






29. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






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






31. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






32. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






33. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






34. Tx for PDA?






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






36. How does MI cause LHF?






37. What is the tx for VSD?






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






39. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






40. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






42. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






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






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






45. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






46. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?






47. How do nitrates tx MI?






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






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






50. What are Janeway lesions?