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1. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






2. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






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






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






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






6. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






7. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






8. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






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






10. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for a mural thrombus? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






11. What are the causes of LHF?






12. What is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death? What are less common causes of sudden cardiac death?






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






14. What is an Anitschow cell?






15. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






16. What is the tx for LHF?






17. What is the foundation of a scar?






18. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






20. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






21. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






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






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






24. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






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






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






27. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






28. Tx for PDA?






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






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






31. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






32. What is an Aschoff body?






33. How does stable angina present?






34. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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






36. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






37. What is a Quincke pulse?






38. With what virus is PDA associated?






39. What type of vegetations does Strep viridans cause?






40. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






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






42. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






43. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






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






45. What is the rate of mitral valve prolapse in the US?






46. What is a water - hammer pulse?






47. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






48. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






49. What are the clinical features of RHF?






50. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?