Cardiology

1. Which of the following drugs raises HDL cholesterol?

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

3. AR with low pulse pressure is found in all except:

4. Commonest congenital cyanotic heart disease with cyanosis at birth is:

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

6. The ESR may be very low in all except:

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

8. PDA is life-saving in all of the following except:

9. Pedal pulse is ‘absent’ in all except:

10. ‘Absolute’ contraindication to thrombolytic therapy in AMI is:

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

12. Cardiac anomalies associated with tetralogy of Fallot are all except:

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

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

15. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

16. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

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

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

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

20. Myocarditis may be found in all except:

21. Muffled S1 is found in alt except:

22. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

23. Increased PR interval is observed in:

24. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?

25. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

26. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

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

28. Which of the following is false regarding complete heart block?

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

30. During cardiopulmonary resuscitation, external defibrillation by DC shock is done with:

31. Aortic arch syndrome is not associated with:

32. Which does not produce a regularly irregular pulse?

33. Which of the following is not found in constrictive pericarditis?

Water-hammer pulse is present when pulse pressure is at least
above?

35. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

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

37. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

38. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

40. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

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

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

43. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

44. When a patient of unstable angina worsens by nitroglycerine, the diagnosis is:

45. Clinically, commonest type of shock is:

46. All of the following produce systemic hypertension except:

47. Sudden death may occur in:

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

49. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

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