Cardiology

1. Which of the following drugs raises HDL cholesterol?

2. Eisenmenger’s syndrome should not have:

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

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

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

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

7. Clubbing is not a feature of:

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

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

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

11. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

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

13. Which of the following heart sounds occurs shortly after S1?

14. Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is increased in all except:

15. Cardiac arrest may be due to:

16. Unilateral clubbing is found in all except:

17. Digitalis toxicity is associated with all except:

18. Which does not produce a regularly irregular pulse?

19. Exercise tolerance test is absolutely contraindicated in:

20. Sphygmomanometer cannot diagnose:

21. Roth spot is found in alt except:

22. Which of the following is not advocated in the treatment of acute pulmonary oedema?

23. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

24. Paroxysmal hypertension is classically found in:

25. The chance of SBE is lowest in:

26. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

27. The disease with male preponderance is:

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

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

30. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

31. The S2 in Fallot’s tetralogy:

32. Muffled S1 is found in alt except:

33. Cardiac percussion is important in:

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

35. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

36. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

37. Classical JVP finding in cardiac tamponade is:

38. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

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

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

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

42. The murmur of MS is:

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

44. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

45. Which of the following is not an aetiology of MR?

46. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

47. CPK-MB is increased in all except:

48. Congestive cardiac failure may be seen in all except:

49. Aortic arch syndrome is not associated with:

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