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Subject : health-sciences
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1. In what pt population does S aureus commonly cause valvular disease?






2. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






3. How do nitrates tx MI?






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






5. Large vegetations on tricuspid valve?






6. What is migratory polyarthritis?






7. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






9. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






10. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






11. With what virus is PDA associated?






12. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






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






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






15. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






16. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






17. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






18. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






19. What are the clinical features of LHF due to?






20. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






21. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






22. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






23. What type of endocarditis is associated with SLE?






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






25. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






27. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






28. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






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






30. What are the cancers that most commonly metastasize to the heart?






31. What is cardiogenic shock?






32. What are the tx for MI?






33. What is a water - hammer pulse?






34. What is the leading cause of death in the US?






35. When does the heart have dark discoloration post MI?






36. What is the most common type of endocarditis?






37. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






38. How does stable angina present?






39. What are the complications of mitral valve prolapse? Are they common?






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






41. How does O2 tx MI?






42. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






43. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






44. What is molecular mimicry?






45. What are heart failure cells?






46. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






47. How does ischemia cause LHF?






48. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






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






50. Swelling and pain in a large joint that resolves within days and migrates to involve another large joint.