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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






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






3. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






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






5. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






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






7. What are heart failure cells?






8. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






9. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






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






11. Systolic ejection click followed by crescendo - decrescendo murmur.






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






13. Tx for PDA?






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






15. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






16. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






17. What is Loeffler syndrome?






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






19. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






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






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






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






23. How does stable angina present?






24. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






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






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






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






28. What is a water - hammer pulse?






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






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






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






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






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






34. What is the most common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy? What are other causes?






35. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






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






37. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






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






39. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






40. What type of shunt dose PDA cause?






41. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






42. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






43. What type of vegetations does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis) cause?






44. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






45. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-7 days after an MI?






46. Friction rub and chest pain.






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






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






49. What is the tx for VSD?






50. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?