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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. L to R shunt becomes R to L due to increase pulm pressures from original congenital heart defect

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2. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






3. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






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






5. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






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






7. benign - painful - red - blue tumor under fingernails from smooth muscle cells






8. decrease blood flow to the skin due to arteriolar vasospasm in cold temp - emotional stress - also in SLE and CREST

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






10. What does FEVERSS stand for in rheumatic heart disease






11. Mitral stenosis is most often secondary to which condition?






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






13. What causes the cushing reflex and why






14. In terms of starling forces - why does heart failure cause edema?






15. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






16. necrotizing granulomas in lung and upper airways - nectrotizing GN - small vessel vasculitis

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






18. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






19. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






20. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






21. How does acidosis affect contractility?






22. The carotid sinus transmits along which nerve?






23. congenital heart defect with 22q11






24. stroke volume x HR =?






25. congenital heart defect withdown syndrome






26. Which artery supplies the inferior portion of the left ventricle and posterior septum?






27. p - anca

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28. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






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






30. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






31. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






32. highly lethal malignancy of the liver - associated with vinyl chloride - arsenic - and thorosrast exposure






33. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






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






35. The aortic arch receptors transmit along which nerve?






36. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






37. Where are pacemaker cells?






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






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






40. rate of 02 consumption/ arterial 02 - venous 02 ccontent=CO






41. polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed






42. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






43. Why is contractility decreased in heart failure?






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






45. What is the S2 sound?






46. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






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






48. When does extracellular calcium enter the cardiac muscle cells during contraction?






49. machine murmer






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