Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 71: Hantavirus can result in _____ capillary leak

Answer: pulmonary

Flashcard 72: Which antibody is sensitive for drug-induced lupus? _____

Answer: Anti-histone antibodies

Extra: Atlas:

Flashcard 73: T-cell ALL (leukemia or lymphoma) often presents with _____, particularly in the cervical, supraclavicular, and axillary lymph nodes

Answer: lymphadenopathy

Flashcard 74: Without treatment, patients with giant cell (temporal) arteritis are at high risk for _____

Answer: blindness

Extra: Atlas:

Flashcard 75: Lung cancer has a(n) _____ 5-year survival rate because the disease often presents _____ in its course

Answer: low

Flashcard 76: MEN_____ and MEN_____ may cause primary hyperparathyroidism

Answer: 1

Flashcard 77: von Willebrand disease is associated with an abnormal _____ assay

Answer: Ristocetin

Extra: von Willebrand Disease (vWD) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder. It typically presents with mucosal bleeding (e.g., epistaxis, menorrhagia) and may show an increased PTT because vWF normally stabilizes Factor VIII.

Flashcard 78: What effect does the hand grip maneuver have on the "click" onset time of MVP murmurs? _____

Answer: Later onset of click/murmur

Extra: * hand grip increases afterload which delays aortic valve opening due to built up SVR (afterload), thus the midsystolic click is heard later because the LV pumping blood is delayed

Flashcard 79: Costosternal syndrome (costochondritis) typically presents after repetitive activity and involves the upper costal cartilage at the _____ or _____ junctions

Answer: costochondral

Flashcard 80: Neutropenia may result from severe _____

Answer: infection (e.g. gram-negative sepsis)

Extra: Neutropenia in severe infection (like gram-negative sepsis) occurs due to increased margination and migration of neutrophils into the affected tissues, depleting the circulating pool.