Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 2941: The most common cause of emphysema is _____

Answer: smoking

Flashcard 2942: What cause of thyrotoxicosis often presents in a healthcare worker with a recent history of weight loss?

Answer: Factitious thyrotoxicosis (exogenous thyroid hormone)

Flashcard 2943: Disorders of primary hemostasis present with symptoms of skin bleeding, such as _____ (> 1 cm)

Answer: ecchymoses

Flashcard 2944: Which thyroid imbalance presents with proximal muscle weakness and normal creatine kinase?_____

Answer: Hyperthyroidism

Flashcard 2945: What is the most likely cause of a mid-systolic crescendo-decrescendo murmur heard best at the right upper sternal border that radiates to the carotids?

Answer: Aortic stenosis

Extra: The murmur of aortic stenosis is a mid-systolic crescendo-decrescendo ejection murmur, typically heard loudest at the right second intercostal space (base of the heart) and radiating to the carotid arteries. It is often associated with a weak and delayed carotid pulse (pulsus parvus et tardus).

Flashcard 2946: What enzyme may be elevated in hemolytic anemia (both extra- and intravascular)? _____

Answer: Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)

Flashcard 2947: Should you start thyroid hormone replacement in a patient with euthyroid sick syndrome?_____

Answer: No*

Flashcard 2948: Does sickle cell anemia result in extravascular or intravascular hemolysis?_____

Answer: Both

Flashcard 2949: In asthma, the DLCO is _____

Answer: normal or increased

Flashcard 2950: A delayed, rumbling late diastolic murmur is indicative of what pathology? _____

Answer: Mitral stenosis