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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. In an EKG - What is the T wave?






2. What are aschoff bodies






3. What causes orthopnea?






4. What is the most common cause of MI






5. What do the starling forces determine






6. If HR is too fast (V tach) what happens during diastole?






7. What is the effect on the slope of phase 4 in pacemaker cells by Ach or adenosine?






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






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






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






11. What is the S1 sound?






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






13. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






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






15. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






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






17. serum marker for wegener's






18. Rank the following by speed of conduction - av node - atria - purkinjee - ventricles






19. Which enzymes are useful for diagnosing reinfarction






20. CO x Total peripheral resistance






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






22. Why is there edema after burns or during infection






23. Mitral stenosis is most often secondary to which condition?






24. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






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






26. What are the diastolic heart sounds?






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






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






29. cavernous lymphangioma of the neck - associated with turner's






30. PCWP is an estimate of...






31. What is the cushing triad?






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






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






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






35. machine murmer






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






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






38. The carotid sinus transmits along which nerve?






39. fibrinous pericarditis several weeks post MI

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40. Left to right shunts are more common in babies or kids?






41. The 7 complications of MI

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42. What happens in phase 0 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






43. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






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






45. segmental thrombosing vasculitis of small and medium vessels in smokers with intermittent claudication - superficial nodular phlebitis - raynaud's - gangrene and severe pain - autoamputation of digits is possible

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46. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






47. Does blood flow across the actual ASD account for abnormal heart sounds? What is the reason?






48. What causes the midsystolic click






49. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






50. What cardiac change occurs in pregnancy?