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






2. What is the most common primary cardiac tumor in children? Is it malignant or benign?






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






4. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






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






6. How do nitrates tx MI?






7. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






8. What congenital heart defect often is present with infantile coarctation of the aorta?






9. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






10. What is the most common cause of infectious endocarditis?






11. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






12. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






13. What does rupture of the IV septum cause?






14. What causes unstable angina?






15. 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.






16. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






17. What is the most common type of ASD? What %?






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






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






20. What causes microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in aortic stenosis?






21. Friction rub and chest pain.






22. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






23. What is the definition of ischemia?






24. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






25. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






26. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






27. What effect does mitral stenosis have on the heart chambers?






28. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






29. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






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






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






32. What is the major cause of MI?






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






34. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






36. What are the tx for MI?






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






38. Reperfusion of irreversibly damaged cells results in Ca influx - leading to hypercontraction of myofibrils.






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






40. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






42. What are Janeway lesions?






43. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






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






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






46. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






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






48. What causes angina and syncope in aortic stenosis?

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49. What congenital heart defect does indomethacin tx?






50. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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