Cardiology

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

2. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

3. Endomyocardial fibrosis may be due to:

4. Which is not a feature of atrial myxoma?

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

6. Paroxysmal hypertension is classically found in:

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

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

9. All are helpful in the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy except:

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

11. Haemoptysis may be found in:

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

13. All are bedside differential diagnoses of MS except:

14. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

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

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

17. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

18. Syphilis may give rise to:

19. All of the following are characteristics of right ventricular infarction except:

20. Atrial myxomas may be associated with all except:

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

22. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

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

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

25. Which of the following is false regarding oedema in congestive cardiac failure?

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

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

28. All are cardiovascular features of severe anaemia except:

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

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

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

32. Which one is false regarding the presence of ejection click?

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

34. Opening snap is:

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

36. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

37. Cardiomyopathy may follow treatment with:

38. Graham Steel murmur is found in:

39. Which is not a predisposing factor for dissecting aneurysm of aorta?

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

41. Which drug prolongs life in chronic stable angina?

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

43. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

44. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

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

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

47. Pulsus alternans is produced by:

48. The murmur of MS is:

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

50. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by: