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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. thrombosis w/o necrosis - ST elevation - worsening chest pain at rest or with minimal exertion






2. What causes hepatomegaly?






3. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






4. What does prolonged QT predispose to?






5. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






6. skin rash on buttocks and legs - arthralgia - intestinal hemorrhage - abdominal pain - melena. Follows URI - IgA immune complex - most common childhood systemic vasculitis






7. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






8. In a lateral wall infarct - which artery is effected - and which leads show Q waves?






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






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






11. congenital heart defect with marfan's






12. Which organ has the largest arteriovenous difference






13. What happens in phase 3 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






14. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






15. What does TAPVR stand for






16. What does HTN predispose to?






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






18. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






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






20. In the evolution of an MI - when the risk for free wall rupture - tamponade - papillary muscle rupture - or interventricular septal rupture the hightest? Why?






21. In terms of starling forces - why does nephrotic syndrome or liver failure cause edems






22. diaphoresis - N/V - severe retrosternal pain - pain in left arm/jaw - SOB - fatigue - adrenergic symptoms






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






24. Which murmur is heard with VSD?






25. SV CAP means?






26. L to R shunt becomes R to L due to increase pulm pressures from original congenital heart defect

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27. Hyperplastic onion skinning






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






29. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






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






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






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






33. What are the four most common locations for atherosclerosis?






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






35. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






36. Which organ gets the largest share of systemic cardiac output






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






38. What does FEVERSS stand for in rheumatic heart disease






39. Irregularly irregular ECG - no p waves: dx and treatment






40. The cause of dyspnea on exertion?






41. What is the difference between the fetal and neonatal direction of blood flow in a patent ductus arteriosus






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

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






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






45. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






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






47. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






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






49. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






50. systolic - diastolic