Cardiology

1. Coarctation of aorta may be associated with all except:

2. Which one of the following is false regarding atrial fibrillation?

3. The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification for retinal changes is meant for:

4. Heart valve commonly affected by IV drug abusers is:

5. All are examples of congenital cyanotic heart disease except:

6. Coronary atherosclerosis is not linked to:

7. The murmur of MS is:

8. Acute pericarditis is a recognised complication of all except:

9. Exercise tolerance test is absolutely contraindicated in:

10. Which of the following drugs is not used in hypoxic spells of Fallot’s tetralogy?

11. Which is not a feature of atrial myxoma?

12. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

13. ‘Diastolic shock’ is not found in:

14. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

15. Murmur of floppy mitral valve increases with all except:

16. Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is usually found in:

17. Which one of the following is a centrally-acting antihypertensive drug?

18. The least common complication of MS is:

19. Clubbing is not a feature of:

20. Which of the following heart sounds occurs shortly after S1?

21. Angio-oedema is not uncommon in treatment with:

22. A very close differential diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis at the bedside is:

23. Boot-shaped heart with oligaemic lung fields is found in:

24. All of the following may produce hemiplegia by cerebral embolism except:

25. Cardiac percussion is important in:

26. Kussmaul’s sign is not a feature of:

27. Malar flush is found in all except:

28. All of the following are common arrhythmias developing from AMI except:

29. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

30. Which is not a cause of wide and fixed splitting of S2?

31. Which of the following does not produce ‘fleeting’ arthritis?

32. Which one is false regarding the floppy mitral valve?

33. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

34. In right ventricular myocardial infarction, which of the following additional therapies is needed?

35. Dressler’s syndrome results from:

36. Which of the following does not produce a continuous murmur?

37. Which of the following gives rise to a heaving apex beat?

38. Inverted P-wave in lead. I, upright P-wave in aVR and gradual diminution of the height of R-waves in precordial leads are found in:

39. The normal blood volume in an adult male is approximately:

40. Giant a-wave in neck vein is seen in:

41. ‘Fallot’s pentalogy’ is Fallot’s tetralogy plus:

42. Acute subendocardial infarction will have ECG findings:

43. Which chamber of heart fails first in MS?

44. ‘Nitrate tolerance’ developing as a result of treating ischaemic heart disease by mononitrates is prevented by:

45. A pericardial friction rub may have any of the components except:

46. In critical MS, the mitral valve orifice is:

47. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

48. Differential cyanosis is found in:

49. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

50. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?