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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






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






3. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






4. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






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






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






7. What is the basic principle of CHF?






8. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






10. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






11. What is an Aschoff body?






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






13. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






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






15. What causes the nutmeg color in nutmeg liver?






16. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






17. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






18. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






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






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






21. How does ischemia cause LHF?






22. What causes heart failure cells?






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






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






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






26. How do nitrates tx MI?






27. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






28. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






29. What shunt does tetralogy of fallot produce?






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






31. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






32. With what condition are rhabdomyomas associated?






33. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






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






35. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






36. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






37. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






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






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






40. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






41. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






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






43. How does reperfusion injury occur?






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






45. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






46. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






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






48. What are the complications that occur months after an MI?






49. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






50. What % of MIs involve the LAD?