Cardiology — Flashcards

_____ heart failure may cause painful hepatosplenomegaly, which rarely may progress to "cardiac cirrhosis"

_____ heart failure may present with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, which is breathless awakening from sleep

_____ syndrome presents with an ECG pattern of pseudo-right bundle branch block and ST elevations in leads V1 - V3

Normally, A2 > P2 because the left sided system is _____ pressure than right; P2 can > A2 thus in pulmonary hypertension

A murmur due to _____ may radiate to the axilla

IV Ca2+ channel blockers such as _____ and clevidipine may be used in hypertensive emergency

Cardiac tamponade may be associated with _____, which is a decrease in amplitude of systolic BP > 10 mmHG during inspiration

Atrial _____ typically has a 4:1 'sawtooth' pattern appearance on ECG

_____ syndrome is an autoimmune phenomenom that results in fibrinous pericarditis following an MI

Stanford type _____ dissections, involving only the descending aorta, distal to the subclavian artery are also classified as DeBakey type III