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Cardiology

Subject : health-sciences
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1. What does T wave inversion indicated?






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






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






4. Expiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds






5. most common heart tumor






6. Which vessels account for the most total peripheral resistance






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






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






9. PCWP > LV diastolic pressure






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






11. What is the formula for EF?






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






13. What is the progression of atherosclerosis?






14. How does aldosterone raise MAP






15. delta wave on ECG - accesory conduction pathway from atria to ventricles - reentry leading to supraventricular tachycardia






16. What supplies the posterior left ventricle?






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






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






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






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






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

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22. Where are pacemaker cells?






23. What is the characteristic pulse in aortic stenosis?






24. What happens in phase 2 of the cardiac ventricular action potential?






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






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






27. in the JVP - What is the a wave?






28. How are sarcomeres added in concentric hypertrophy?






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

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






31. Inspiration causes an increase in which sided heart sounds?






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






33. What are common causes of mitral regurg?






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






35. What does an isoelectric ST segment indicate?






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

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37. In a lateral wall infarct - which artery is effected - and which leads show Q waves?






38. In terms of starling forces - why does heart failure cause edema?






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






40. What do the starling forces determine






41. Which lab value indicates blood viscosity?






42. How does digitatlis increase contractility?






43. congenital heart defect with marfan's






44. Which two mechanisms sense decrease MAP?






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






46. what conditions are associated with pulsus paradoxus






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






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






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






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