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Test your basic knowledge |

Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Mitral stenosis is most often secondary to which condition?






2. Chronic mitral stenosis can lead to what changes in size of the LA






3. stroke volume x HR =?






4. What are the systolic heart sounds






5. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






6. The cause of dyspnea on exertion?






7. What does HTN predispose to?






8. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






9. Fatal arrhythmia






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






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


12. what happens to capillaries in lymphatic blockage






13. What masks atrial repolarization?






14. How does aldosterone raise MAP






15. machine murmer






16. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






17. What is the S2 sound?






18. What are aschoff bodies






19. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






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






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






22. benign cap hemangioma of infancy - spont regresses






23. EDV is also known as






24. cavernous lymphangioma of the neck - associated with turner's






25. smaller vegetations - congenitally abnormal or diseased valves - sequela of dental procedures. Insidious onset






26. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






27. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






28. The carotid sinus transmits along which nerve?






29. What is the formula for EF?






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






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






32. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI


33. What are tendinous xanthoma - atheromas - and corneal arcus signs of?






34. Which murmur is characteristic of mitral/tricuspid regurg?






35. retrosternal chest main with exertion - ST depression on ECG - likely due atherosclerosis






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






37. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






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






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






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






41. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






42. How does angiotensin II raise MAP






43. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






44. Which bacteria causes endocarditis in the presence of colon cancer






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






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






47. What do the starling forces determine






48. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






49. What does TAPVR stand for






50. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






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