Cardiology

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

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

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

4. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

5. S3 may be present in all except:

6. ‘Ausatltatory gap’ in BP measurement is:

7. Which of the following drugs raises HDL cholesterol?

8. Compression of the feeding artery abruptly reduces the heart rate in arteriovenous fistula and is known as:

9. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

10. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?

11. Right axis deviation in ECG is found in:

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

13. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

14. The drug that is contraindicated in pregnancy-induced hypertension is:

15. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

16. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?

17. ‘Diastolic shock’ is not found in:

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

19. A2 in aortic stenosis is characteristically:

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

21. The commonest congenital heart disease is:

22. Pericardial rub is best audible in all except:

23. Differential cyanosis is found in:

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

25. Clinically, commonest type of shock is:

26. Which of the following is not a cause of sinus bradycardia?

27. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

28. The S2 in Fallot’s tetralogy:

29. The ESR may be ‘zero’ in:

30. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

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

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

33. Classical JVP finding in cardiac tamponade is:

34. Cannon wave in the neck vein is seen in:

35. Endomyocardial fibrosis may be due to:

36. Regarding Kerley’s B lines, all of the following are true except:

37. The least common complication of MS is:

38. Prolonged QT interval in ECG is found in all except:

39. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

40. All are class I antiarrhythmic drugs except:

41. The disease with male preponderance is:

42. Syphilis may give rise to:

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

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

45. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

46. Which of the following is not a ‘Major manifestation’ of Jones criteria in rheumatic fever?

47. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

48. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

49. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

50. Which of the following is the least important cause of dissection of aorta?