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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Friction rub and chest pain.






2. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






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






4. How long can cardiac myocytes be deprived of oxygen before they become irreversibly injured?






5. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for Dressler syndrome? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






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






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






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






9. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






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






11. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






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






13. What is the tx for LHF?






14. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






15. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






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






17. What is systolic dysfx?






18. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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






20. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






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






22. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






23. What creates the immune reaction in acute rhuematic fever?

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24. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






26. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






27. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






29. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






30. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






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






32. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






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






34. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






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






37. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






38. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






39. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






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






42. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






44. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






45. How do nitrates tx MI?






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






47. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






48. What causes unstable angina?






49. Chest pain the arises with exertion or emotional stress and is relieved by NG or rest. The pain lasts <20 min and radiates to the left arm or jaw. There is also diaphoresis and SOB - EKG shows ST- segment depression.






50. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?