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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






2. What is migratory polyarthritis?






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






4. What is the tx for LHF?






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






6. How does O2 tx MI?






7. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






9. What is the most common tumor of the heart?






10. What endocarditis is commonly found in patients with colon cancer?






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






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






13. How does dilated cardiomyopathy cause LHF?






14. What effect does transposition of the great vessels have on the ventricles?






15. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






16. Small - sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged on closure of valve leaflets in a pt w/metastatic colon cancer?






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






18. How do you tx prinzmetal angina?






19. What drug relieves stable angina?






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






21. What is chronic rheumatic heart disease?






22. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






23. Which coronary artery supplies the posterior wall of the LV and posterior septum?






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






25. Are most congenital heart defects spontaneous or inherited?






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






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






28. What cardiac enzyme is useful for detecting reinfarction?






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






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






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






32. What are the clinical features of RHF due to?






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






34. Swelling and pain in a large joint that resolves within days and migrates to involve another large joint.






35. What is the classic EKG finding of restrictive cardiomyopathy?






36. How does ischemia cause LHF?






37. With what condition are rhabdomyomas associated?






38. What is a common complication of cardiac metastasis?






39. What is an important complication of ASD?






40. How does transmural MI/ischemia present on EKG?






41. What are the clinical features of RHF?






42. What causes the dependent pitting edema in RHF?






43. What conditions can cause nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis?






44. What effect does aortic stenosis have on the chambers of the heart?






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






46. What is the basic principle of CHF?






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






48. What is a complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease?






49. What is systolic dysfx?






50. With what developmental disorder is VSD associated?