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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Rank the following by speed of conduction - av node - atria - purkinjee - ventricles






2. congenital heart defect with 22q11






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






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






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






6. Wegener's presentation






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






8. When do coronary arteries fill?






9. In an anterolateral infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






10. What are the systolic heart sounds






11. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






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






13. which medications are used to maintain patency or close the ductus arteriosus?






14. EDV - ESV






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






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






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






18. The 7 complications of MI






19. Which murmur is heard in aortic stenosis?






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






21. What causes the murmur heard in tricuspid regurg to enhance






22. most common primary cardiac tumor in children - associated with tuberous sclerosis






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






24. What masks atrial repolarization?






25. What causes the midsystolic click






26. What is associated with paradoxical spliting of S2






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






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






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






30. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






31. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by catecholamines and






32. What does FEVERSS stand for in rheumatic heart disease






33. What causes tet of fallot?






34. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






35. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






36. What causes aortic regurg






37. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






38. What causes the murmur heard in MR to enhance?






39. Equilibration of diastolic pressures in all 4 chambers - decreased CO from compression of heart by fluid in pericardium






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






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






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






43. Do you see elevaged ASO titers in rheumatic heart disease






44. What does autoregulation do?






45. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






46. Which valve is most commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis?






47. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






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






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






50. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?