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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






2. What is systolic dysfx?






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






4. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






5. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






6. What are the sx of PDA at birth?






7. How does asprin/heparin tx MI?






8. What type of vegetations form in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






9. Is scar tissue or myocardium stronger?






10. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






11. What is the tx for VSD?






12. What are Osler nodes?






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






14. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy present?






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






16. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






17. What maintains patency of the PDA?






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






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






20. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






22. What type of vegetations are associated with Libman - Sacks endocarditis?






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






24. What causes heart failure cells?






25. What is the most common form of cardiomyopathy?






26. What determines the extent of shunting and cyanosis in tetralogy of fallot?






27. When is an MI pt at greatest risk for cardiogenic shock?






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






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






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






31. At What age does wear and tear aortic stenosis present? What congenital disease hastens the onset?






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






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






34. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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






36. What are the Jones criteria?






37. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






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






39. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






40. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






41. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






42. How does MI cause LHF?






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






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






45. What type of collagen is involved in fibrosis?






46. What two things cause coronary artery vasospasm?






47. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






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






49. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






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