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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. When is the scar completely formed in an MI?






2. What causes the midsystolic click






3. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






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






5. The 7 complications of MI


6. What masks atrial repolarization?






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






8. decrease stretch in baroreceptors leads to what response?






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






10. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






11. What causes aortic stenosis






12. benign cap hemangioma of infancy - spont regresses






13. port wine stains on face - intracerebral AVM - siezures - early onset glaucoma - congenital






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






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






16. What murmur is heard with aortic regurg?






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






18. What does hypoxia cause in the lung versus other tissues?






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






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


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






22. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






23. absecnce of tricuspid valve - hypoplastic RV






24. failure of truncus arteriosus to divide?






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






26. What stimulates release of calcium from the SR?






27. machine murmer






28. Unilateral headache - jaw claudication - impaired vision






29. Which organ has ht highest blood flow per gram of tissue






30. What causes the murmur heard in tricuspid regurg to enhance






31. What is the definition of HTN?






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






33. How does acidosis affect contractility?






34. What is association with fixed S2 splitting - does not increase with inspiration






35. What is the most common cause of MI






36. How does angiotensin II raise MAP






37. What does mitral prolapse predeispose to?






38. disruption of the vasa vasorum of aorta - dilation of aorta and valve ring - tree bark appearance (calcifications on aortic root)






39. Which bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease






40. What are the systolic heart sounds






41. pulmonary veins drain into right heart circulation (SVC - coronary sinus)






42. What are tendinous xanthoma - atheromas - and corneal arcus signs of?






43. What does increasing intracellular Ca do?






44. What are the different etiologies of dialted cardiomyopathy






45. Do you see elevaged ASO titers in rheumatic heart disease






46. What does HTN predispose to?






47. which heart valves are afected most in rheumatic heart diseease






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






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






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