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Subject : health-sciences
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1. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






2. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






3. What gross and microscopic changes occur 4-24 hours after an MI?






4. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






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






7. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?






8. What valves are most commonly involved in chronic rheumatic heart disease?






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






10. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






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






12. What complications occur 4-7 days post MI?






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






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






15. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






16. What effect does dilated cardiomyopathy have on the heart?






17. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






18. Sudden death in a young athlete.






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






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






21. Vegetations on surface and undersurface of mitral valve.






22. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






23. What is a water - hammer pulse?






24. How does stable angina present?






25. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






26. What drug relieves stable angina?






27. What is the definition of ischemia?






28. What are Janeway lesions?






29. What causes the dependent pitting edema in RHF?






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






31. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 weeks after an MI?






32. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






33. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






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






35. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






36. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






37. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






39. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






40. What always follows necrosis?






41. What is the most comon cause of aortic regurg? What are the other causes?






42. What causes a mid - systolic click followed by a regurgitation murmur?






43. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






44. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






45. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






46. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






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






48. What is cardiogenic shock?






49. What are the clinical features of RHF?






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