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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What is the difference between adult and infantile type aortic coarctation?






2. What does autoregulation do?






3. The 7 complications of MI


4. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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






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






7. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






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






9. What happens in phase 3 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






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






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






12. In an EKG - What is the QT interval?






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






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






15. What are the systolic heart sounds






16. How does a patient with Tet of fallot learn to improve symptoms?






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






18. Which bacteria can cause endocarditis from prosthetic valves?






19. What is the S2 sound?






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






21. congenital heart defect withdown syndrome






22. in the JVP - What is the v wave?






23. in the JVP - What is the c wave?






24. What are anitschkow's cells






25. What causes the midsystolic click






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






27. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






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


29. Which murmur is heard in aortic stenosis?






30. What causes the cushing reflex and why






31. When do coronary arteries fill?






32. What causes aortic stenosis






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


34. PROVe






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






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


37. What is the early and late lesion in rheumatic heart disease






38. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






39. congenital heart defect with 22q11






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






41. with what heart sounds do ASD usually present?






42. EDV is also known as






43. no change in PR interval followed by dropped beat






44. In normal S2 splitting - which valve closes first? What increases it?






45. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






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






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






48. What is the S1 sound?






49. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






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