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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is Loeffler syndrome?






2. What type of shunt results in cyanosis at birth?






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






4. What maintains patency of the PDA?






5. How does Eisenmeger syndrome occur?






6. What is diastolic dysfx?






7. Early - blowing diastolic murmur - bounding pulse - pulsating nail bed - and head bobbing.






8. Fever - murmur - Janeway lesions - Osler nodes - splinter hemorrhages - anemia of chronic disease?






9. What is the most common cause of mitral stenosis?






10. What are the major criteria of the Jones criteria?






11. Which angina(s) show ST elevation on EKG? ST depression?






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






13. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






14. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






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






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






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






18. In transposition of the great vessels - What is required for survival? How is this achieved?






19. Boot - shaped heart on x- ray?






20. What is a Quincke pulse?






21. What is the characteristic murmur of aortic stenosis?






22. What is the murmur of mitral regurg?






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






24. What valves are involved in rhuematic endocarditis?






25. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






26. Which vasculitis can cause MI?






27. Pericarditis 6-8 wks post MI.






28. What is the most common cause of endocarditis in IV drug users?






29. What are the minor critera of the Jones criteria?






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






31. What are the sx of right - to - left shunt?






32. What are the clinical features of RHF?






33. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






34. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






35. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






36. What increases the risk for chronic rheumatic heart disease?






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






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






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






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






41. What causes endocarditis of prosthetic valves?






42. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






43. What congenital heart defect is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?






44. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






46. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






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






48. What type of shunt does transposition of the great vessels cause?






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






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