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Subject : health-sciences
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1. Myofiber hypertrophy with disarray.






2. How does contraction band necrosis occur?






3. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






4. How does fibrinolysis/angioplasty tx MI?






5. What is the tx for VSD?






6. In which pts does S viridans cause endocarditits?






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






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






9. What is the basic principle of CHF?






10. What is a water - hammer pulse?






11. What tests show prior group A beta - hemolytic strep infection?






12. How do ACE inhibitors tx MI?






13. What cardiac disease is associated with tuberous sclerosis?






14. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






15. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






16. What is an Aschoff body?






17. What drug relieves stable angina?






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






19. What complication occurs 1-3 days post MI?






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






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






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






23. What are heart failure cells?






24. Opening snap followed by diastolic rumble.






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






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






27. What causes acute endocarditis?






28. What are the Jones criteria?






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






30. What are the causes of LHF?






31. With what other congenital heart defect is tricuspid atresia associated? What type of shunt is present?






32. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have the mitral valve?






33. In which chamber of the heart are rhabdomyomas found?






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






35. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






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






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






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






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






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






41. Infects predamaged valves after transient bacteremia?






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






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






44. Erythematous nontender lesions on palms and soles.






45. What coronary arterysupplies the lateral wall of the LV?






46. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






47. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






48. Where is the coarctation in infantile coarctation of the aorta?






49. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






50. What causes prinzmetal angina?