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Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the most common congenital heart defect?






2. Which artery is most often occluded in an MI?






3. What is the etiology of S viridans endocarditis?






4. What does chronic ischemic heart disease progress to?






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






6. What is the most comon cause of aortic regurg? What are the other causes?






7. What is the effect of mitral regurg on the heart?






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






9. What genetic conditions predispose a pt to mitral valve prolapse?






10. How does adult coarctation of the aorta present?






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






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






13. What causes the split S2 in ASD?






14. What is the murmur of mitral valve prolapse?






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






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






17. What causes an early - blowing diastolic murmur?






18. With what disease is transposition of the great vessels associated?






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






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






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






22. What causes wear and tear aortic stenosis?






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






24. With what endocarditis is S epidermidis associated?






25. When do CK- MB levels rise - peak - and return to normal?






26. What is the most common cause of myocarditis?






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






28. What is diastolic dysfx?






29. How do beta blockers tx MI?






30. What is Loeffler syndrome?






31. What murmur ccan be heard in PDA?






32. What generally causes ischemic heart disease?






33. What increases the volume of mitral regurg murmur?






34. How does aortic regurg affect the heart chambers?






35. What is an Aschoff body?






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






37. When is a post - MI pt at highest risk for Dressler syndrome? With what microscopic change is this complication associated?






38. Endomyocardial fibrosis w/eosinophilic infiltrate and eosinophilia.






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






40. What causes prinzmetal angina?






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






42. What are the complications of aortic stenosis?






43. When would arrhythmia occur after MI?






44. When do neutrophils infiltrate the myocardium post MI?






45. Poor myocardial fx due to chronic ischemic damage?






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






47. What are the HACEK organisms? With what condition are they associated?






48. Tender lesions on fingers or toes.






49. What iis the tx for aortic regurg?






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