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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What do patients die early from in rheumatic heart disease?






2. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






3. EDV - ESV






4. What causes the midsystolic click






5. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






6. The 7 complications of MI


7. What causes orthopnea?






8. What is the difference between the fetal and neonatal direction of blood flow in a patent ductus arteriosus






9. What are anitschkow's cells






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


11. What masks atrial repolarization?






12. benign - painful - red - blue tumor under fingernails from smooth muscle cells






13. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






14. EDV is also known as






15. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






16. Where does coronary artery occlusion occur most commonly?






17. Wegener's tx






18. benign cap hemangioma of infancy - spont regresses






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






20. What happens in phase 4 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






21. no relation between p waves and QRS intervals - treatment and predisposing factor






22. How does acidosis affect contractility?






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






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






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






26. What is the result of not have fast sodium channels in pacemaker cells?






27. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






28. Which murmur do you hear in mitral stenosis?






29. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






30. congenital heart defect with 22q11






31. Wegener's presentation






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






33. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






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






35. Restrictive cardiomyopathy causes






36. In an anterior wall infarct - which artery is effected and which leads show Q waves






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






38. Which class of drugs decrease preload






39. Do dihydropyridine or non - dihyrdropyridine Ca channel blockers decrease contractility






40. What are aschoff bodies






41. Which class of drugs decreases afterload?






42. dilated tortous veins due to chronically inc venous pressure - poor wound healing - varicose ulcers






43. What does T wave inversion indicated?






44. What kind of dysfunction ensues in restrictive cardiomyopathy






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






46. most common primary cardiac tumor in adults - ball - valve obstruction in left atrium






47. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






48. What other sign is often present with congenital long QT syndrome - why?






49. Where are pacemaker cells?






50. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?