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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the tx for VSD?






2. What is the gold standard blood marker for MI?






3. What is an Aschoff body?






4. What typically causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






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






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






7. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






8. Which angina(s) cause subendocardial ischemia? Transmural ischemia?






9. How does O2 tx MI?






10. Return of O2 and inflammatory cells cause FR generation - further damaging myocytes.






11. What are other (not atherosclerotic) causes of MI?






12. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






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






14. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






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






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






17. What vavular defect results from acute rheumatic fever?






18. EKG for stable angina?






19. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






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






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






22. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






23. What is the main cause of MV regurg? What are other causes?






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






25. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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26. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






27. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






28. When does the heart have a yellow pallor post MI?






29. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






31. What causes notching of the ribs in adult coarctation of the aorta?






32. Episodic chest pain unrelated to exertion due to coronary vasospasm. ST- segment elevation. Relieved by NG or Ca channel blockers.






33. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






34. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






35. What is the most common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy? What are other causes?






36. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






38. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






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






40. Friction rub and chest pain.






41. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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






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






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






45. What compensatory mechanism do tetralogy of fallot pts learn?






46. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






47. Reactive histiocyte with slender - wavy 'caterpillar' nucleus.






48. What is a Quincke pulse?






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






50. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?