Heart Failure — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ heart failure may present with pulmonary edema due to increased pulmonary venous pressure

Answer: Left

Flashcard 2: Does digoxin reduce mortality in patients with chronic heart failure?_____

Answer: No

Flashcard 3: The most common cause of isolated right-sided heart failure is _____.

Answer: parenchymal lung disease

Flashcard 4: _____ heart failure may cause jugular venous distension due to increased systemic venous pressure

Answer: Right

Flashcard 5: Myocardial infarction induced acute left ventricular failure can result in rapid onset _____ and acute pulmonary edema

Answer: pulmonary venous hypertension

Flashcard 6: Falsely _____ BNP values can be seen in obese patients and during flash pulmonary edema.

Answer: low

Extra: BNP levels are inversely related to BMI (obese patients have lower levels). In flash pulmonary edema, BNP may be falsely low because the peptide has not yet had time to rise. Other causes of lower-than-expected BNP include pericardial constriction and certain valvular heart diseases.

Flashcard 7: _____ is the most common underlying etiology of left-sided diastolic heart failure.

Answer: Hypertension

Flashcard 8: In patients with hypertension and what comorbidity should ACE inhibitors / ARBs become first line? _____

Answer: Hypertension with Diabetes Mellitus

Flashcard 9: Electric cardioversion is _____effective in the management of Multifocal atrial tachycardia

Answer: in

Flashcard 10: What pathology is indicated on the ECG below? _____

Answer: 1st degree AV block