Cardiology

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

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

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

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

5. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

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

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

8. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

9. Digitalis toxicity is precipitated by all except:

10. Which is false regarding dyspnoea?

11. Eisenmenger’s syndrome should not have:

12. Digitalis toxicity is associated with all except:

13. Acute subendocardial infarction will have ECG findings:

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

15. Pulsus paradoxus is seen in all except:

16. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?

17. Elfin facies (pointed chin; cupid’s bow-like upper lip, upturned nose) may be seen in:

18. Commonest aetiology of tricuspid incompetence in clinical practice is:

19. Myocarditis may be found in all except:

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

21. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

22. Sudden death may occur in:

23. Propranolol can be used in all except:

24. Increased PR interval is observed in:

25. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

26. Ideally, the connecting tube of the stethoscope should be:

27. Still’s murmur is:

28. Lutembacher’s syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

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

34. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

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

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

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

38. Delta wave in ECG is found in:

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

40. Retrostemal chest pain classically occurs in all except:

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

42. Varying intensity of S1 is found in all except:

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

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

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

46. In critical MS, the mitral valve orifice is:

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

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

49. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

50. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in: