Cardiology

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

2. Which of the following gives rise to a heaving apex beat?

3. Major cardiovascular manifestation in cri-du-chat syndrome is:

4. Syphilis may give rise to:

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

6. In right ventricular myocardial infarction, which of the following additional therapies is needed?

7. Pulmonary regurgitation is never associated with:

8. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

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

10. Sudden death may occur in all of the following except:

11. ‘Ausatltatory gap’ in BP measurement is:

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

13. Hyperthyroid heart disease is manifested by:

14. Which of the following does not lead to Eisenmenger’s syndrome?

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

16. Clubbing is not a feature of:

17. The S2 in Fallot’s tetralogy:

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

19. The commonest cause of death in an adult with PDA is:

20. JVP is usually increased in:

21. All are bedside differential diagnoses of MS except:

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

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

24. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

25. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

26. All of the following drugs may be used in congestive cardiac failure except:

27. All are true in severe PS except:

28. Sphygmomanometer cannot diagnose:

29. Myocarditis may be found in all except:

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

31. Cri-du-chat syndrome does not have:

32. Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is usually found in:

33. X-ray appearance of calcification of patent ductus arteriosus is:

34. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

35. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

36. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

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

38. Mental retardation, squint, and idiopathic hypercalcaemia may be associated with stenosis of:

39. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

40. Which of the following is not included in ‘minor manifestation’ of Jones criteria in rheumatic fever?

41. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

42. All are examples of congenital cyanotic heart disease except:

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

44. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

45. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

46. ‘Nitrate tolerance’ developing as a result of treating ischaemic heart disease by mononitrates is prevented by:

47. Pseudoclaudication is due to compression of:

48. All are class I antiarrhythmic drugs except:

49. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

50. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by: