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Subject : health-sciences
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1. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






2. What causes the dependent pitting edema in RHF?






3. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






4. What coronary arterysupplies the lateral wall of the LV?






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






6. Drug that vasodilates both arteries and veins but mostly veins. Used to decrease preload to heart.






7. EKG for stable angina?






8. What always follows necrosis?






9. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






10. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






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






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






13. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






14. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






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






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






17. What is Loeffler syndrome?






18. What is migratory polyarthritis?






19. What causes acute endocarditis?






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






21. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






22. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






23. What is the most common primary cardiac tumor in children? Is it malignant or benign?






24. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






25. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






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






27. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






28. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






29. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






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






31. What is an Anitschow cell?






32. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






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






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






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






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






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






38. What is a water - hammer pulse?






39. With what virus is PDA associated?






40. How does O2 tx MI?






41. What is the main cause of MV regurg? What are other causes?






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






43. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






44. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






45. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






46. What is the major cause of MI?






47. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






48. What is the foundation of a scar?






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






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