- hyperkalaemia is exacerbated in the presence of ____________ or other drugs that favour retention such as ________
- what should you monitor with patients taking beta-blockers after each dose increase?
- beta-blockers in heart failure tend to reduce ________ so the patient should be _____ and started on the _______________ before up-titration
- side effects of loop diuretics - what type of acid-base disturbance
- side effects of loop diuretics - altered tubular excretion can cause
- ejection fraction of a healthy heart should be _________ %
- what should you be aware of if the patient you are prescribing ACEi for heart failure, if they are already taking loop diuretics?
- what is the eventual end treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension?
- What do ventricular myocytes do during systole
- What is the most likely defect present with AF?
- What is the most common form of hypertension
- What % of heart disease deaths are caused by hypertension
- When does most coronary arterial blood flow to the myocardium occur
- What do conduction defects (arrhythmias) due to uncoordinated generation of impulses lead to
- Why does most coronary arterial blood flow to the myocardium occur during ventricular diastole
- How can the compensated stage of hypertensive heart diseases by diagnose
- What % of hypertension cases are essential (idiopathic)
- How many valves are there in the heart
- During hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy, what does the ventricular wall stiffness impair and what does this cause
- What do ventricular myocytes do during diastole