Family Medicine EOR Cardiovascular Exam
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QUESTION
What is coronary artery
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Answer:
Hardening and narrowing of the coronary arteries due to atherosclerosis
QUESTION
What is the pathology of coronary artery disease?
Answer:
Imbalance between increased demand and decreased coronary artery blood supply due to
atherosclerosis
QUESTION
What are major risk factors for CAD?
Answer:
Diabetes (worst)
Smoking
Hyperlipidemia
Men
Age >45 (men) or >55 (women)
QUESTION
What is the definitive diagnostic test for coronary artery disease?
Answer:
Coronary angiography
QUESTION
What is the treatment for two vessel coronary artery disease?
Answer:
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
QUESTION
What is the treatment for three vessel (or LAD involvement) coronary artery disease?
Answer:
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
QUESTION
What medication should every patient with CAD take?
Answer:
Daily baby aspirin
QUESTION
What medications should a patient with a recent stent placement be taking?
Answer:
Clopidogrel or ticagrelor for antiplatelet therapy
QUESTION
What pathogen is most common cause of endocarditis of a native valve?
Answer:
Staph aureus
Strep viridans
Mitral valve
QUESTION
What pathogen is most common cause of endocarditis in an IV drug users?
Answer:
Staph aureus
Tricuspid valve
QUESTION
What pathogen is most common cause of endocarditis <2 months after prosthetic valve
placement?
Answer:
Staph aureus
QUESTION
What pathogen is most common cause of endocarditis 2-12 months after prosthetic valve
placement?
Answer:
Staph epidermidis
QUESTION
What pathogen is most common cause of endocarditis >12 months after prosthetic valve
placement?
Answer:
Staph aureus
Strep bovis
Strep viridans
QUESTION
What is the most common cause of subacute endocarditis?
Answer:
Strep viridans (abnormal valve involved)
** due to murmur, rheumatic fever
QUESTION
What are the signs of endocarditis?
Answer:
FROM JANE
Fever
Roth spots (retinal hemorrhages)
Osler nodes (painful, fingers & toes)
Murmur
Janeway lesions (painless, palms & soles)
Anemia (normochromic)
Nail bed hemorrhage (splinter hemorrhage)
Emboli (septic emboli)
QUESTION
How do you diagnose endocarditis?
Answer:
Blood cultures (HACEK will return negative on culture)
TTE
TEE (preferred to see vegetations) [Show Less]