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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. retrosternal chest main with exertion - ST depression on ECG - likely due atherosclerosis






2. exaggerated decrease in pulse during inspiration.


3. What are aschoff bodies






4. Chronic mitral stenosis can lead to what changes in size of the LA






5. clinical signs of cardiac tamponade






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






7. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






8. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






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






10. What does FAN MY SKIN On Wednesday stand for?






11. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






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






13. what percentage of HTN is secondary to renal disease?






14. prolonged PR interval






15. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






16. How do catecholamines increase contractility?






17. highly lethal malignancy of the liver - associated with vinyl chloride - arsenic - and thorosrast exposure






18. What causes aortic regurg






19. Rank the pacemakers cells






20. What happens with a decrease of extracellular Na






21. When does EF decrease






22. necrotizing granulomas in lung and upper airways - nectrotizing GN - small vessel vasculitis


23. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






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






25. SV CAP means?






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






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






28. How are cadiac myocytes eltrically coupled?






29. Where are pacemaker cells?






30. What does the U wave indicated?






31. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






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






33. What is the classic X ray finding for tet of fallot?






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






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






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






37. The cause of dyspnea on exertion?






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






39. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






40. What do the starling forces determine






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






42. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






43. When and why is the S3 sound heard?






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






45. sawtooth wave


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






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






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






49. In an anteroseptal infarct - which artery is effected - and which leads show Q waves?






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