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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. How does acidosis affect contractility?






2. What is the time frame for arrhythmia risk in the evolution of MI






3. disease of elastic arteries and large and medium sized muscular arteries






4. When does EF decrease






5. Which valve is commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis from IV drug use and Which bacteria are most common?

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6. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






7. What is the danger of torsades to pointes?






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






9. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






10. What are the systolic heart sounds






11. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?






12. What are anitschkow's cells






13. What are the complications of atherosclerosis?






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






15. How does aldosterone raise MAP






16. Exercise - overtransfusiion and excitiment causes and increase in...?






17. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






18. Rank the pacemakers cells






19. congenital heart defect with turner's






20. progressive lengthening of PR until beat is dropped - a p wave not followed by QRS






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






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

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23. Which artery supplies the inferior portion of the left ventricle and posterior septum?






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






25. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






26. What causes hepatomegaly?






27. What can cause mitral prolapse?






28. The cause of pulmonary edema - paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea?






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






30. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






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






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

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33. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






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






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






36. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






37. What are the 5 T's of cyanoitc babies






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






39. Most common vasculitis affecting medium and large arteries






40. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






41. What is the most common cause of MI






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






43. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






44. Where is the most posterior portion of the heart and What can it cause?






45. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






46. fibrous plaques and atheromas in intima of arteries






47. On the cardiac cycle graph - on which corners do the opening and closing of the aortic and mitral valves occur?






48. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






49. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






50. acute - self limiting necrotizing vasculitis in children associated with fever - conjunctivitis - strawberry tongue - desquamatous skin rash - lymphadenitis - coronary sinus aneurysms. Seen in asians