Cardiology — Flashcards

Clinical features of Addison disease include hyponatremia, hypovolemia, and hyperkalemia, due to lack of _____

What type of disease prevention are vaccination and health promotion?_____

Thrombotic ischemic strokes commonly affect the _____ artery

_____ aphasia is caused by damage to the watershed areas around (but not including) Broca and Wernicke areas and the arcuate fasciculus

Pulmonary emboli are usually clinically silent as the embolus is usually _____ (size) and self-resolves

Does a ventricular septal defect cause a systolic or diastolic murmur?_____

Is pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease usually at least partially reversible following correction of underlying abnormality?_____

Patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (very rare) have cholesterol levels of ~ _____ mg/dL

UTI's are associated with _____ incontinence

The autoantibodies in ITP are produced by plasma cells in the _____