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Name the middle layer of the heart
What is the myocardium?
What is the most significant cardiac marker in a myocardial infarction?
What is Troponins?
Chronic ischemic heart disease
What is stable angina, variant angina, and silent myocardial ischemia?
Constriction or narrowing of a passage or orifice
What is stenosis?
What is cardiac tamponade?
What is pressure on the heart caused by increased fluid in the pericardial sac.
The left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery is also known as the...
What is the widow maker?
Plaque that ruptures causes platelet adhesion, thrombus, or embolus is?
What is unstable plaque
Acute coronary syndrome clasification
What is No ST-segment elevation, and ST-segment elevation?
Inflamation of the heart's inner lining
What is endocarditis?
A condition in which the heart muscle becomes thick. The thickening makes it harder for blood to leave the heart, forcing the heart to work harder to pump blood.
What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Back flow of blood through a defective valve of the heart
What is regurgitation?
An uncommon disorder that is usually caused by viral, bacterial, or fungal infections that reach the heart.
What is myocarditis?
Which ACS fall under the category of no ST-segment elevation?
What is unstable angina?
ECG finds for NSTEMI view
What is ST-segment depression, T wave inversion, or may even have a normal ECG?
Hypertrophic caridomyopathy is...
What is a genetic condition characterized by the thickening of the heart muscle, particularly on the septum or left ventricle?
What is the name of the space between the visceral and parietal layers of serous pericardium?
What is pericardial cavity?
When is the best time to test the Troponin level?
What is ASAP?
Female clinical manifestations of MI
What is chest pain or pressure, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, and pain radiating to the arm, jaw, back, or neck and more atypical signs such as fatigue, indigestion-like discomfort, or upper back pain.
ECG finds for STEMI view
What is ST-segment elevation in at least 2 contiguous leads, often with reciprocal changes?
Valve regurgitation is a result from
What is blood flows backward across the valve as it closes, or the valve leaflets do not close properly and allow blood to leak through?
What are the risk factors for cardiovascular disease?
What is smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, diabetes, family history..?
Typical MI clinical manifestations are?
What is chest pain or pressure, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, and pain radiating to the arm, jaw, back, or neck. These symptoms may vary between individuals?
National quality initiatives monitor hospitals’ proportion of cases with STEMI with door-to-balloon time established as?
What is 90 minutes?
Clinical manifestations of infective endocarditis
What is fever, new or changed cardiac murmur, petechial lesions of skin, weight loss, back pain, night sweats, emboli (in lungs, brain, ocular, ect).