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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






2. What type of shunt does a VSD cause?






3. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






4. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






5. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






6. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






7. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






8. How does hypertension cause LHF?


9. What areas of the heart does the RCA supply?






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






11. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






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






13. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






14. What does granulation tissue contain?






15. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






16. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






17. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






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






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






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






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






22. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






23. Why would cardiac enzymes continue to increase after the initial MI?






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






25. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






26. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






27. What type of shunt does ASD cause?






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






29. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






30. What type of ASD is associated w/Down syndrome?






31. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






32. What type of tumor is a rhabdomyoma?






33. What is migratory polyarthritis?






34. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






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






36. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






37. What heart sound manifest with an ASD?






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






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






40. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






41. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






42. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






43. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






44. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






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






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






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






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






49. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






50. What drug relieves stable angina?