Test your basic knowledge |

Subject : health-sciences
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






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






3. Lower extremity cyanosis later in life - holostystolic machine like murmur.






4. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






5. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






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






7. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






8. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






9. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






10. What is an Aschoff body?






11. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






12. What does rupture of the LV free wall cause?






13. How does subendocardial MI/ischemia present on EKG?






14. What causes heart failure cells?






15. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






16. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






17. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






18. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






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






20. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






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






22. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






23. What two things happen when a blocked vessel is opened after an MI?






24. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






25. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






26. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






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






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


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






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






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






32. What maintains patency of the PDA?






33. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?






34. How does hypertension cause LHF?


35. At What age does wear and tear aortic stenosis present? What congenital disease hastens the onset?






36. What always follows necrosis?






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






38. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






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






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






41. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






42. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






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






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






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






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






47. How does stable angina present?






48. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






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






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