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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






2. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






3. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






4. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






5. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






6. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






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






8. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






9. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






10. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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11. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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12. Dense layer of elastic and fibrotic tissue in the endocardium.






13. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






14. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






15. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






16. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






17. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






18. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






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






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






21. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






22. Sudden death in a young athlete.






23. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






24. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






25. What are Osler nodes?






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






27. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






28. Which coronary artery supplies the anterior wall and anterior septum?






29. What are the causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in adults?






30. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






31. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for an aneurysm? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






32. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






33. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






34. What causes heart failure cells?






35. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






36. What is the most common valve infected by S aureus?






37. What is a water - hammer pulse?






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






39. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






40. How does stable angina present?






41. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






42. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






43. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






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






45. What is an Anitschow cell?






46. Return of O2 and inflammatory cells cause FR generation - further damaging myocytes.






47. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






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






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