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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






2. What is the progression of atherosclerosis?






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






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






5. What does FAN MY SKIN On Wednesday stand for?






6. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






7. congenital heart defect in an infant with a diabetic mother?






8. What causes orthopnea?






9. What is the time frame for arrhythmia risk in the evolution of MI






10. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






11. wartiike - sterile vegetations occur on both sides of the valve - commonly causes mitral regurg. SLE causes it






12. What happens in phase 2 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






13. What happens in phase 4 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






14. What are the diastolic heart sounds?






15. In what disease states is blood viscosity increased?






16. What is the gold standard for dx of MI in the first 6 hours






17. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






18. What causes the early cyanosis in Tet of Fallot?






19. Churg Strauss - presentation and test






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






21. What causes the ejection click in the Cres - decres murmur?






22. p - anca


23. Endothelial malignancy of the skin assocated with HHV-8 and HIV


24. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by Ach or adenosine?






25. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






26. What other congenital abnormality is necessary for life for a patient with transposition of the great vesses?






27. Wegener's tx






28. How does aldosterone raise MAP






29. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






30. What are aschoff bodies






31. Which valve is commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis from IV drug use and Which bacteria are most common?


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






33. How do catecholamines increase contractility?






34. When do you see extensive coagulative necrosis in an MI






35. in the JVP - What is the c wave?






36. port wine stains on face - intracerebral AVM - siezures - early onset glaucoma - congenital






37. Does blood flow across the actual ASD account for abnormal heart sounds? What is the reason?






38. immune mediated transmural vasculitis with fibrinoid necrosis - small and medium vessels - renal and viscera - not pulm arteries - hep B seropos in 30% of pts






39. Inspiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds?






40. Rank the following by speed of conduction - av node - atria - purkinjee - ventricles






41. stroke volume x HR =?






42. The cause of pulmonary edema - paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea?






43. What is the result of not have fast sodium channels in pacemaker cells?






44. In an EKG - What is the p wave?






45. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






46. What is sudden cardiac death most commonly due to...






47. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






48. In an EKG - What is the QT interval?






49. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






50. Which enzyme rises after 4 hours and is elevated for 7 to 10 days after an MI?