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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Which two mechanisms sense decrease MAP?






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






3. What causes orthopnea?






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






5. In what disease states is blood viscosity increased?






6. lymphatic malignancy associated with persistant lymphadema - post radical mastectomy






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






8. How does acidosis affect contractility?






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






10. What does FROM JANE stand for in bacterial endocarditis?


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






12. What 4 things drive myocardial 02 demand?






13. machine murmer






14. What happens with a decrease of extracellular Na






15. thrombosis w/o necrosis - ST elevation - worsening chest pain at rest or with minimal exertion






16. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






17. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






18. What is the cushing triad?






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






20. Which murmur is heard with mitral prolapse?






21. What does FEVERSS stand for in rheumatic heart disease






22. In normal S2 splitting - which valve closes first? What increases it?






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






24. What does the atria release in response to inc blood volume and atrial pressure






25. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






26. What causes aortic stenosis






27. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






28. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






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






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






31. tearing chest pain radiation to the back - associated with marfan






32. congenital heart defect with 22q11






33. SV CAP means?






34. When do coronary arteries fill?






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






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






37. bacterial endocarditis - previously normal valves - rapid onset - Which bacteria?






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






39. Fatal arrhythmia






40. What masks atrial repolarization?






41. What is the S1 sound?






42. What do the starling forces determine






43. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






44. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






45. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






46. bening capillary hemangioma of elderly - does not regress






47. clinical signs of cardiac tamponade






48. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






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






50. What is the most common cause of MI