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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






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






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






4. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






5. What always follows necrosis?






6. What effect does squatting have on the murmur of mitral valve prolapse? Why?






7. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






8. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






9. What characterizes acute rheumatic fever endocarditiis?






10. What is the foundation of a scar?






11. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






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






13. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






14. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






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






16. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






17. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






19. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






20. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






21. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






22. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






23. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






24. What does granulation tissue contain?






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

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26. What is the tx for LHF?






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






28. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






29. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






30. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






31. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






32. What is the characteristic finding on CXR in tetralogy of fallot?






33. What is the definition of ischemia?






34. What complication occurs 1-3 days post MI?






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






36. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






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






38. Chest pain the arises with exertion or emotional stress and is relieved by NG or rest. The pain lasts <20 min and radiates to the left arm or jaw. There is also diaphoresis and SOB - EKG shows ST- segment depression.






39. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






40. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






41. Hypertension in upper extremities - hypotension in lower extremities - notching of ribs on CXR.






42. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






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






44. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






46. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






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






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






49. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






50. With what disease is Libman - Sacks endocarditis associated?