Cardiology

1. Which of the following is not a natural vasodilator?

2. Cardiac percussion is important in:

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

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

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

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

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

8. CPK-MB is increased in all except:

9. Eisenmenger’s syndrome should not have:

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

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

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

13. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

14. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

15. Cardiac involvement is absent in:

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

17. Which of the following is not a side effect of amiodarone?

18. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

19. Roth spot is found in alt except:

20. Indications for dosed mitral valvotomy include all except:

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

22. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

23. Retrostemal chest pain classically occurs in all except:

24. Seagull murmur is not a feature of:

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

26. Which one of the following is false regarding Austin Flint murmur?

27. Regrading neck venous pulsation, which is false?

28. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

29. Loud A2 is present in:

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

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

32. Which of the following is present in most of the patients of SBE?

33. Radiofemoral delay is a feature of all except:

34. Acute subendocardial infarction will have ECG findings:

35. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

36. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

37. Clinically, the severity of MS is best assessed by:

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

39. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

40. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

41. P-wave in ECG is absent in:

42. Familial myxomas may be a part of syndrome complex with endocrine overactivity like:

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

44. Which of the following gives rise to pulsation at the back?

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

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

47. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

48. Which drug prolongs life in chronic stable angina?

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

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