Cardiology

1. Cardiomyopathy may follow treatment with:

2. Which of the following beta-blockers is commonly used in heart failure?

3. Which of the following is not a recognised risk factor for early atherosclerosis?

4. All of the following drugs may be used in congestive cardiac failure except:

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

6. The drug of choice in acute management of PSVT is:

7. Which of the following is not a natural vasodilator?

8. 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:

9. Long tubular heart in X-ray chest is found in all except:

10. The action of digitalis is augmented by:

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

12. In a patient with MS in sinus rhythm, the severity of valvular lesion is indicated by:

13. Congestive cardiac failure may be seen in all except:

14. Endomyocardial fibrosis may be due to:

15. RBBB with left axis deviation in ECG is characteristically seen in:

16. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

17. Mental retardation, squint, and idiopathic hypercalcaemia may be associated with stenosis of:

18. ‘Hilar dance’ is characteristic of:

19. The “3-sign’ in chest roentgenogram diagnoses:

20. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

21. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

22. Pregnancy-associated hypertension should not be treated with:

23. Radiofemoral delay is a feature of all except:

24. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

25. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

26. Acute subendocardial infarction will have ECG findings:

27. Which is false regarding dyspnoea?

28. Sudden death may occur in:

29. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

30. Double apex in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is mainly due to:

31. Increased level of which of the following is not a risk factor for lHD?

32. Cardiac syncope is characterised by:

33. JVP is usually increased in:

34. Eisenmenger’s syndrome should not have:

35. All of the following produce systemic hypertension except:

36. S1, S2, S3 syndrome in ECG is seen in:

37. Osler’s node is classically seen in:

38. ‘Syndrome-Z’ increases cardiovascular morbidity, and is associated with:

39. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

40. Which of the following is not recognised to be an acute phase reactant?

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

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

43. The S2 in Fallot’s tetralogy:

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

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

46. Opening snap is:

47. Digitalis toxicity is associated with all except:

48. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

49. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

50. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?