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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What causes prinzmetal angina?






2. Tx for PDA?






3. What type of valvular vegetations does S aureus cause?






4. What are the causes of LHF?






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






6. What effect does aortic regurg have on the pulse pressure? Why?






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






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






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






10. What are the clinical features of endocarditis? What causes each feature?






11. What is cardiogenic shock?






12. How does squating decrease hypoxemia in tetralogy of fallot?






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






14. When do macrophagess infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






15. Lower extremity cyanosis in infants? In adults?






16. What is the cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in children?






17. What is systolic dysfx?






18. What effect does mitral stenosis have on the heart chambers?






19. What type of ischemia does stable angina cause?






20. What are the sx of pericardiits?






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






22. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






23. What % stenosis causes stable angina?






24. What are the four defects in tetralogy of fallot?






25. What is typically the mechanims of sudden cardiac death?






26. What is the tx for dilated cardiomyopathy?






27. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






28. What is the effect of acute vs chronic rheumatic disease off the mitral valve?






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






30. What is the gross and microscopic appearance of cardiac myxomas?






31. What are the sx of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?






32. What is the major cause of MI?






33. What is the 1day-1wk -1mo mneumonic for MI?






34. Unexpected death due to cardiac disease w/o sx or <1hr after sx arise?






35. How does restrictive cardiomyopathy cause LHF?

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36. Low voltage EKG w/diminished QRS amplitude.






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






38. Which chambers of the heart are generally spared in an MI?






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






40. What is migratory polyarthritis?






41. How does O2 tx MI?






42. What are the causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in adults?






43. What is the tx for mitral valve prolapse?






44. With what disease is infantile coarctation of the aorta associated?






45. How does stable angina present?






46. What are the laboratory findings of bacterial endocarditis?






47. What disesase has Aschoff bodies?






48. What gross and microscopic changes occur 1-3 days after an MI?






49. What is a water - hammer pulse?






50. What is dilated cardiomyopathy?