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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What can cause mitral prolapse?






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






3. 2/3 diastolic + 1/3 systolic






4. What are anitschkow's cells






5. most common heart tumor






6. What causes the CO curve to shift upwards?






7. What are the complications from bacterial endocarditis?






8. How does acidosis affect contractility?






9. What is the cushing triad?






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






11. What causes the midsystolic click






12. PROVe






13. What causes the murmur heard in MR to enhance?






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






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






16. congenital heart defect with congenital rubella






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






18. In an acute MI - are there any visible changes via LM in the first 2-4 hours






19. Right to left shunts are more common in babies or kids?






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






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






22. When during cardiac nodal cells depolarize?






23. which ethnic groups have higher association with HTN?






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






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






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






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






28. Which valve is most commonly involved in bacterial endocarditis?






29. What causes the cushing reflex and why






30. What kind of infarct show ST depression






31. What is the association with wide S2 splitting?






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






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






34. In an EKG - What is the PR interval?






35. moncekberg






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






37. In an EKG - What is the T wave?






38. Wegener's presentation






39. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






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






41. When and why do you hear the S4 sound






42. What is the S2 sound?






43. What causes ankle - sacral edema - jugular venous distention






44. p - anca


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






46. Which artery supplies the SA and AV nodes?






47. MAP is also known as






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


49. list the coronary vessels most likely to be occluded






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