Across
- 4. What is the tension, force or stress acting on ventricular wall myocytes after onset of shortening?
- 6. Which sided heart failure has dyspnoea resolved by diuretic therapy?
- 8. What overloads heart chambers due to septal defects?
- 12. What is a regulatory protein of the contractile apparatus and a marker of myocardial tissue injury or necrosis?
- 13. What is 'impaired' by primary (DCM) or secondary myocardial failure?
- 15. Which peptide is a marker of neurohormonal activation suggestive of remodelling/ventricular dilation?
- 17. What is the heart encased within?
- 19. What is the typical prognosis for cardiac disease?
- 20. What is defined as difficult, laboured or painful breathing?
- 21. Which rhythm is the merging of S3 and S4?
Down
- 1. What is a loss of consciousness due to reduced cerebral blood flow?
- 2. What insufficiency is the most common cause of volume overload?
- 3. Which disease has dyspnoea resolved with bronchodilators, steroids and antibiotics?
- 5. Which arterial pulse is usually used for small animals?
- 7. What is associated with decreased oxygenation and blue tinged MM?
- 9. Which valve is best heard LHS 3rd ICS close to the sternum?
- 10. Which valve is best heard LHS 4th ICS 1/3 of the way up?
- 11. Which animal coughs in advance or acute heart failure?
- 13. What is loss of total body fat and lean mass despite normal appetite and adequate therapy due to cardiac disease?
- 14. Which valve is best heard RHS 3rd or 4th ICS 1/4 of the way up?
- 16. What is the volume of blood returning to the ventricle (ventricular end-diastolic volume)?
- 18. Which valve is best heard LHS 5th ICS 1/4 of the way up?