Questions

1. What does the term of “endocarditis” mean?

2. What is the causative agent of subacute bacterial endocarditis?

3. What heart may be vulnerable to Streptococcus viridans?

4. What is damage that Streptococcus viridans may cause?

5. What kind of fever is characteristic of subacute bacterial endocarditis?

6. What may the patient experience at the onset of the disease? What may follow?

7. Why may ischemia and paralysis occur in subacute bacterial endocarditis?

8. What is the cause of hematuria in subacute bacterial endocarditis?

9. Where can emboli lodge in the body?

10. What are petechiae?

11. What infarctions are common in endocarditis?

12. What may be the cause of bleeding from nose, lungs and stomach?

13. What is the cause of valvular scar?

14. What does the degree of functional valve impairment depend on?

15. What complications may follow endocarditis?

16. What examination techniques are used to make the diagnosis?

17. What may auscultation reveal?

18. What is heart murmur?

19. What methods of treatment are used in endocarditis?

Additional Questions. Something to Think about

1. What is the source of heart murmur? (clues: defective valves, to close, completely, blood, to pass, a blowing noise)

2. What instrument is used to hear the heart murmur? (clue: stethoscope)

3. What is electrocardiograph? ( clues: machine, to record, heart action)

4. Why is heart disease the leading cause of death all over the world? (clues: average life span)

5. When is it the time to begin to guard against diseases of the heart? (clues: adolescence, young adulthood)

6. What infectious diseases may harm the heart? (clues: any infection, diphtheria, scarlet fever, syphilis, bloodstream)

7. What is congenital heart disease? (clues: since birth)

8. What is the heart-lung machine? (clues: open heart surgery, blood flow, to bypass)

9. What condition is called rheumatic heart disease? (clues: throat infection, streptococcus. rheumatic fever, lifelong damage)

10. What is atherosclerosis? What may produce it? (clues: artery walls, fatty deposits, to collect, to narrow, to block. heart attack)

11. What process is known as arteriosclerosis? (clues: artery walls, to harden)

12. When may heart attack develop? What are its signs? Why is it important to get a heart-attack victim to a medical treatment center as soon as symptoms are felt? (heart, to get enough blood, severe chest pain, nausea, sweating, to get help, to survive)

13. What condition is called angina pectoris? What may relieve it? (clues: exercise, stress, heart, enough blood, chest pain, rest, medicine, under the tongue)

14. What type of surgery is called coronary bypass surgery? (clues: blocked artery, to bypass, another blood vessel, leg, blood flow, to increase)

15. What risk factors make the chance of heart attack greater? (clues: smoking, untreated hypertension, lack of exercise, overweight, stress, high blood levels of cholesterol and sugar)