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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which enzyme rises after 4 hours and is elevated for 7 to 10 days after an MI?






2. In an EKG - What is the QRS complex?






3. Does eccentric hypertrophy or concentric hypertrophy cause systolic disfunction






4. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






5. sudden death in young atheletes - S4 - apical impulses - outflow obstruction






6. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






7. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






8. disruption of the vasa vasorum of aorta - dilation of aorta and valve ring - tree bark appearance (calcifications on aortic root)






9. clinical signs of cardiac tamponade






10. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






11. If HR is too fast (V tach) what happens during diastole?






12. Right to left shunts are more common in babies or kids?






13. dilated tortous veins due to chronically inc venous pressure - poor wound healing - varicose ulcers






14. bening capillary hemangioma of elderly - does not regress






15. When does EF decrease






16. What does HTN predispose to?






17. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






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






19. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






20. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






21. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






22. When do you find hemosiderin laden macrophages in the lungs?






23. Which murmur is heard with mitral prolapse?






24. pulseless disease - granulomatous thickening of the aortic arch and/or proximal great vessels - elev ESR - asian females > 40


25. What does the U wave indicated?






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






27. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






28. What causes aortic regurg






29. Exercise - overtransfusiion and excitiment causes and increase in...?






30. machine murmer






31. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






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






33. How does a patient with Tet of fallot learn to improve symptoms?






34. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






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






36. Weak pulses - notching of the ribs on xray - HTN in upper extremeties and weak peripheral pulses






37. dyspnea - fatigue - edema and rales - multiple causes






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






39. prolonged PR interval






40. Why is there edema after burns or during infection






41. What do the carotid and aortic bodies respond to?






42. Which sympathetic receptors raise MAP






43. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






44. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






45. What is association with fixed S2 splitting - does not increase with inspiration






46. How do beta blockers decrease contractility?






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






48. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






49. Given P = QR - what factors influence resistance?






50. Do you see elevaged ASO titers in rheumatic heart disease