Cardiology

1. The commonest cause of displacement of apex beat is:

2. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

3. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

4. Clinically, commonest type of shock is:

5. Echocardiography can detect the presence of pericardial fluid as little as:

6. Incidence of infective endocarditis is least in:

7. Syncopal attack is associated with all of the following except:

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

9. Delta wave in ECG is found in:

10. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

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

12. Muffled S1 is found in alt except:

13. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

14. All are features associated with an acute attack of PND except:

15. Digitalis toxicity is precipitated by all except:

16. The commonest cause of death in an adult with PDA is:

17. Radiofemoral delay is a feature of all except:

18. Carey Coombs murmur is found in:

19. During cardiac imaging, which phase shows the minimum movement of the heart?

20. Which is the commonest congenital cardiac lesion in Down’s syndrome?

21. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

22. Syphilis may give rise to:

23. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

24. Differential diagnoses of ASD at the bedside are all except:

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

26. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

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

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

29. Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is increased in all except:

30. Loud A2 is present in:

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

32. The sound best audible by the bell of a stethoscope is:

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

34. Central cyanosis is not found in:

35. Increased PR interval is observed in:

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

37. Propranolol can be used in all except:

38. Which is true in ‘maladie de Roger’?

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

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

41. Acute myocardial infarction of posterior wall of left ventricle will show in the ECG:

42. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

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

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

45. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

46. Malar flush is found in all except:

47. All of the following may have unidigital clubbing except:

48. Coronary atherosclerosis is not linked to:

49. Graham Steel murmur is found in:

50. Hyperthyroid heart disease is manifested by: