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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the JOneS mneumonic?






2. What does nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis cause?






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






4. What is eythema marginatum? What parts of the body does it commonly involve?






5. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






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






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






8. What are Janeway lesions?






9. How does stable angina present?






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






11. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






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






13. Is injury due angina reversible or irreversible?






14. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






15. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






16. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






17. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






18. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






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






20. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






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






22. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






23. Turner syndrome is associated with which congenital heart defect?






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






25. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






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






27. What type of endocarditis is associated w/metastatic cancer and wasting conditions?






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






29. What is endocardial fibroelastosis? In what population is it found?






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






31. Which congenital heart defect is associated with congenital rubella?






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






33. What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis?






34. What are the forward and backward sx of LHF?






35. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






37. What causes prinzmetal angina?






38. What is systolic dysfx?






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






40. What are Osler nodes?






41. What is the tx for aortic stenosis?






42. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






43. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






44. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






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






46. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






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






48. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






49. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






50. What type of shunt does ASD cause?