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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






2. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






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






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






5. What causes acute endocarditis?






6. What is cardiogenic shock?






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






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






9. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






12. What effect does chronic rheumatic heart disease have on the aortic valve?

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13. What causes heart failure cells?






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






15. What drug relieves stable angina?






16. What % of MIs involve the LAD?






17. What are the sx/complications of myocarditis?






18. What structures are susceptible to rupture post MI?






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






20. What causes the nutmeg color in nutmeg liver?






21. What are the complications of mitral stenosis?






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






23. What type of shunt does truncus arteriosus cause?






24. Foci of chronic inflammation - reactive histiocytes with slender - wavy nuclei - giant cells - and fibrinoid material.






25. Holosystolic blowing murmur that increases w/expiration?






26. L- to - R shunt switching to R- to - L shunt.






27. What areas of the heart does the LAD supply?






28. Jugular venous distension - painful hepatosplenomegaly w/nutmeg liver - pitting edema.






29. What is the rate of congenital heart defects?






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






31. What is the cause of the red border around granulation tissue?






32. What are the two effects of ATII?






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






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






35. Which coronary artery supplies the anterior wall and anterior septum?






36. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






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






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






39. How do beta blockers tx MI?






40. What imaging test is useful for detecting lesions on valves?






41. What are the sx of aortic regurg?






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






43. What is the definition of ischemia?






44. Why are cardiac enzymes elevated after an MI?






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






46. How does hypertension cause LHF?

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47. What are complications of dilated cardiomyopathy?






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






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






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