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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






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






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






4. What are aschoff bodies






5. machine murmer






6. What does hypoxia cause in the lung versus other tissues?






7. stroke volume x HR =?






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






9. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






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






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






12. How do beta blockers decrease contractility?






13. Given P = QR - what factors influence resistance?






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






15. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






16. What is the S1 sound?






17. What causes the CO curve to shift downwards?






18. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






19. Wegener's tx






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






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






22. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






23. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






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






25. When do you see extensive coagulative necrosis in an MI






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






27. What can cause mitral prolapse?






28. Weak pulses - notching of the ribs on xray - HTN in upper extremeties and weak peripheral pulses






29. When does EF decrease






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






31. How are the sarcomeres added in eccentric hypertrophy?






32. What do the carotid and aortic bodies respond to?






33. What masks atrial repolarization?






34. What other syndrom is associated with infantile aortic coarctation






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






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






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






38. EDV is also known as






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






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






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






42. benign cap hemangioma of infancy - spont regresses






43. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






44. What is the danger of torsades to pointes?






45. What is the S2 sound?






46. What happends in phase 1 of the ventricular cardiac action potential?






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






48. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






49. pulmonary veins drain into right heart circulation (SVC - coronary sinus)






50. What is the formula for EF?