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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the characteristic murmurr of mitral stenosis?






2. What are the sx of cardiac myxoma?






3. What always follows necrosis?






4. How do you prevent S viridans endocarditis?






5. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






6. What complications occur within 4 hrs post MI?






7. How does MI cause LHF?






8. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






9. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






10. What congenital heart defect presents later in life with lower extremity cyanosis?






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






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






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






14. What is molecular mimicry?






15. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






16. Sudden death in a young athlete.






17. Which angina is relieved by Ca channel blockers?






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






19. In which chamber of the heart are cardiac myxomas found?






20. What bug causes acute rheumatic fever?






21. What side of the heart do carcinoid tumors affect? Why?






22. What does a biopsy of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy look like?






23. What is diastolic dysfx?






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






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






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






27. What artery is the 2nd most often occluded in an MI?






28. What does rupture of a papillary muscle cause?






29. Crushing chest pain lasting >20 minutes that radiates to left arm or jaw - diaphoresis - and dyspnea. Sx not relieved by NG.






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






31. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






32. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






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






34. How do nitrates tx MI?






35. What causes mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






38. What is an Aschoff body?






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






40. What is the most common cause of death during the acute phase of rheumatic fever?






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






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






43. What does Libman - Sacks endocarditis cause?






44. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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






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






47. What distinguishes stenosis caused by chronic rheumatic heart disease from wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






49. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






50. What drugs can cause dilated cardiomyopathy?