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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does hypoxia cause in the lung versus other tissues?






2. What causes ankle - sacral edema - jugular venous distention






3. What causes aortic stenosis






4. The cause of cardiac dilation?






5. In an EKG - What is the T wave?






6. in the JVP - What is the v wave?






7. In the cardiac and vascular function curves - In what instance is the vascular curve shifted to the left?






8. What are the 5 T's of cyanoitc babies






9. What is the difference between adult and infantile type aortic coarctation?






10. In an EKG - What is the PR interval?






11. Wegener's tx






12. benign capillary skin papules in AIDS patients mistaken for kaposi sarcoma - caused by bartonella henselae






13. Which valve is most commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis?






14. diaphoresis - N/V - severe retrosternal pain - pain in left arm/jaw - SOB - fatigue - adrenergic symptoms






15. Which organ has ht highest blood flow per gram of tissue






16. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI

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17. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






18. What is the machine like murmur? What is the heart pathology and the predisposing causes






19. What are anitschkow's cells






20. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






21. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






22. What masks atrial repolarization?






23. What happens with a decrease of extracellular Na






24. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






25. On the cardiac cycle graph - on which corners do the opening and closing of the aortic and mitral valves occur?






26. Which organ gets the largest share of systemic cardiac output






27. Which class of drugs decrease the murmur heard in aortic regurg?






28. Central chemoreceptors do not respond directly to which parameter?






29. Which area of the endocardium is especially vulnerable to infarction? Why?






30. prolonged PR interval






31. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






32. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






33. In terms of starling forces - why does nephrotic syndrome or liver failure cause edems






34. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






35. most common primary cardiac tumor in adults - ball - valve obstruction in left atrium






36. congenital heart defect with 22q11






37. What can cause mitral prolapse?






38. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






39. What does HTN predispose to?






40. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






41. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






42. S3 - dilated heart on US - balloon appearance on CXR - eccentric hypertrophy






43. What do the starling forces determine






44. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






45. SV CAP means?






46. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






47. What is the formula for EF?






48. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






49. What is indicated when CO and venous return are equal?






50. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed