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Question | Answer |
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How do you calculate SV? | EDV - ESV = SV |
How do you calculate CO? | SV x HR = CO |
What is normal CO? | 5L / minute |
How much of this CO goes to the brain, heart, and kidney? | 20% = 1 L/minute or 60L/hr |
How do you calculate CPP? | MAP - ICP = CPP |
What organs have resistance in series? | Liver and Kidney |
What organs have resistance in parallel? | All organs except liver and kidney |
What organ has the highest A-VO2 difference at rest? | Heart |
What organ has the highest A-VO2 difference after exercise? | Muscle |
What organ has the highest A-VO2 difference after a meal? | Gut |
What organ has the highest A-VO2 difference during a test? | Brain |
What organ has the LOWEST A-VO2 difference? | Kidney |
Where does Type A thoracic aortic dissection occur? | Ascending aorta |
Which diseases or conditions are associated with Type A Aortic Dissection? | Cystic medial necrosis, syphilis |
Where does Type B thoracic aortic dissection occur? | Descending aorta |
Which conditions are strongly associated with type B thoracic aortic dissection? | Trauma and atherosclerosis |
What layers does a true aortic aneurysm occur? | Intima, media, and adventitia |
What layers does a pseudo-aortic aneurysm occur? | Intima and media |
Which vessel layer is not involved in a pseudo-aneurysm? | Adventitia |
What is pulse pressure? | Difference between systolic pressure and diastolic pressure |
How is Pulse Pressure (PP) calculated? | Systolic - Diastolic pressure |
What vessel has the thickest layer of smooth muscle? | Aorta |
What vessels have the most smooth muscle? | Arterioles |
What vessels have the largest cross-sectional area? | Capillaries |
What vessel has the highest compliance? | Aorta |
What vessels have the highest capacitance? | Veins and venules |
What are 3 causes of HTN? | 1. Volume: ↑SV 2. Rate: ↑HR 3. Resistance: ↑ TPR |
What is your max heart rate? | 220-age in years |
What is Stable angina? | Pain with exertion |
What is the MCC of Stable angina? | Atherosclerosis |
What is Unstable angina? | Pain at rest |
What is the MCC of Unstable angina? | Transient clots |
What is Prinzmetal's angina? | Intermittent pain |
What is the MCC of Prinzmetal's angina? | Coronary artery spasm |
What is Amyloidosis? | Stains Congo red, Echo Apple-Green birefringent Deposition of proteins |
What is Hemochromatosis? | Fe deposit in organs ==> hyperpigmentation, arthritis, DM |
Too much iron absorbed by the GI leads to | Hemochromatosis |
What are features of Cardiac Tamponade? | - Pressure equalizes in all 4 chambers - Quiet precordium - No pulse or BP -Kussmaul sign - Pulsus Paradoxicus (↓>10mm Hg w/ inspiration) |
What is a Transudate? | An effusion with mostly water |
What are the most common causes of a Transudate? | Too much water: 1. Heart failure 2. Renal failure Not enough protein: 1. Cirrhosis (can't make it) 2. Nephrotic syndrome (pee out protein) |
What is an Exudate? | An effusion with mostly protein |
What is the main concept of an Exudate? | Too much protein in the effusion |
What are common causes/diseases which cause Exudate production? | 1. Purulent (bacteria) 2. Hemorrhagic (trauma, cancer, PE) 3. Fibrinous (collagen vascular disease, uremia, TB) 4. Granulomatous (non-bactereial) |
What is Systole? | Squish heart, ↓blood flow to coronary artery, more extraction of O2 |
Which phase of Korotkoff is systole? | Phase 1 |
What is Diastole? | Fill heart, ↑blood flow to coronary artery, less extraction of O2 |
Which phase of Korotkoff is diastole? | Phase 5 |
During systole or diastole is there more extraction of oxygen from blood? | Systole |
During systole or diastole there is increased blood flow to coronary artery? | Diastole |
Fill heart | Diastole |
Squish (contract) heart | Systole |
What are the only arteries with deoxygenated blood? | Pulmonary arteries and umbilical arteries |
What is distinctive of the Pulmonary arteries and the Umbilical arteries? | Only two set of arteries with deoxygenated blood |
What is the difference between a murmur and a bruit? | A murmur occurs in the heart and, A bruit occurs in the blood vessels |
Murmur occurs in the | Heart |
Bruit occurs in the | Blood vessels |
Which murmur has a Waterhammer pulse? | Aortic Regurgitation |
Which murmur has Pulsus tardus? | Aortic Stenosis |
What cardiomyopathy has Pulsus alternans? | Dilated cardiomyopathy |
What disease has Reverse Pulsus Paradoxus? | Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis |
What murmur has an irregularly irregular pulse? | AFIB |
Which murmur has a regular irregular pulse? | PVC |
What sound radiates to the neck? | Aortic Stenosis>AR |
What sound radiates to the axilla? | Mitral Regurgitation> MS |
What sound radiate to the back? | Pulmonary Stenosis |
What disease has a boot-shaped x-ray? | Right ventricle hypertrophy |
What disease has a banana-shaped x-ray? | IHSS |
What disease has an egg-shaped x-ray? | Transposition of the Great Arteries |
What disease has a snowman-shaped x-ray? | Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return |
What disease has a "3" shaped x-ray? | Coartation of the Aorta |
What is Osler-Weber-Rendu? | AVM in lung, gut, CNS => sequester platelets ==> telangiectasias |
What is Von-Hippel Lindau? | AVM in head, retina ==> renal cell cancer risk |
When do valves make noise? | When valves close |
What valves make noise during systole? | Mitral and Tricuspid |
What are the MCC of aortic stenosis? | 1. Aging 2. Dystrophic calcification |
What are the MCC of aortic regurgitation? | 1. Aging 2. Calcifications causing valve to sag |
What are the MCC of mitral stenosis? | Rheumatic fever |
What are the MCC of mitral regurgitation? | 1. MVP 2. SBE 3. Collagen diseases |
What are the MCC of tricuspid stenosis? | 1. Rheumatic fever 2. Carcinoid syndrome |
What are the MCC of tricuspid regurgitation? | Acute endocarditis (staph aureus secondary to IV drug abuse) |
What murmurs occur during systole? | Holosystolic, ejection murmur or click |
What are the holosystolic murmurs? | TR, MR, or VSD |
What are the systolic ejection murmurs? | AS, PS, or HCM |
What valves make noise during diastole? | Aortic and Pulmonic |
What are the diastolic murmurs? | Blowing and Rumbling |
What are the diastolic blowing murmurs? | AR or PR |
What are the diastolic rumbling tumors? | TS or MS |
What are the continuous murmurs? | PDA or AVMs |
What has a friction rub while breathing? | Pleuritis |
What has a friction rub when holding breath? | Pericarditis |
What does a mid-systolic click tell you? | Mitral valve prolapse |
What does an ejection click tell you? | A/P stenosis |
What does an opening snap tell you? | M/T stenosis |
What does S2 splitting tell you? | Normal on inspiration (b/c pulmonic valve closes later) |
What does a wide S2 splitting tell you? | ↑O2, ↑RV volume, or delayed pulmonic valve opening |
What does paradoxical S2 splitting tell you? | AS (or left BBB) |
What does fixed wide S2 splitting tell you? | ASD |
What do you see in left sided heart failure? | Pulmonary edema Orthopnea Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea |
What do you see in right sided heart failure? | Hepatomegaly Peripheral Edema Jugular venous distension |
What is cor pulmonale? | Pulmonary HTN => RV failure |
What is Eisenmenger's? | Pulmonary HTN => reverse L-R to R-L shunt |
What is Transposition of the Great arteries? | Aorticopulmonary septum did not spiral |
What is Tetralogy of Fallot? | 1. Overriding Aorta: aorta sits on IV septum over the VSD; pushes on PA 2. Pulmonary stenosis "Tet spells" 3. RV hypertrophy => boot-shaped heart 4. VSD (L to R shunt) |
What is Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return? | All pulmonary veins to RA, snowman x-ray |
What is Truncus Arteriosus? | Spiral membrane does not develop => one A/P trunk, mixed blood |
What is Ebstein's Anomaly? | Tricuspid prolapse, Mom's Li+ use increases the risk |
What can Lithium do to Mom? | Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus |
What is Cinchonism? | Hearing loss, tinnitus, thrombocytopenia |