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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What are the systolic heart sounds






2. dyspnea - fatigue - edema and rales - multiple causes






3. Which organ has ht highest blood flow per gram of tissue






4. serum marker for wegener's






5. The cause of cardiac dilation?






6. PCWP is an estimate of...






7. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






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






9. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






10. Left to right shunts are more common in babies or kids?






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






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






13. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






14. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






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






16. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






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






18. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






19. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






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






21. In an inferior wall infarct - which artery is affected and which leads show Q waves






22. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






23. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






24. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






25. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






26. What causes hepatomegaly?






27. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






28. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






29. What causes the early cyanosis in Tet of Fallot?






30. When do you find hemosiderin laden macrophages in the lungs?






31. How do catecholamines increase contractility?






32. What causes aortic regurg






33. What does TAPVR stand for






34. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






35. in the JVP - What is the a wave?






36. pulseless disease - granulomatous thickening of the aortic arch and/or proximal great vessels - elev ESR - asian females > 40

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37. What causes tet of fallot?






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






39. port wine stains on face - intracerebral AVM - siezures - early onset glaucoma - congenital






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






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






42. What is the most common cause of MI






43. delta wave on ECG - accesory conduction pathway from atria to ventricles - reentry leading to supraventricular tachycardia






44. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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

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






47. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






48. What constitues the upstroke in pacemaker cells?






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






50. congenital heart defect with 22q11