Cardiology

1. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

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

3. Retrostemal chest pain classically occurs in all except:

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

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

6. The commonest organism producing acute bacterial endocarditis is:

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

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

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

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

11. Clinically, commonest type of shock is:

12. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

13. Opening snap is:

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

15. Cardiomyopathy may follow treatment with:

16. Coronary atherosclerosis is not linked to:

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

18. Carey Coombs murmur is found in:

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

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

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

22. Incidence of infective endocarditis is least in:

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

24. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

25. A2 in aortic stenosis is characteristically:

26. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

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

28. Right axis deviation in ECG is found in:

29. Kussmaul’s sign is not a feature of:

30. Cardiac syncope is characterised by:

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

32. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

33. Pericardial rub is best audible in all except:

34. Atrial myxomas may be associated with all except:

35. Which is not a cause of wide and fixed splitting of S2?

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

37. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

38. Bedside diagnosis of a classical case of SBE does not include:

39. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

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

41. Pulsus bisferiens is best perceived in which artery?

42. S4 is not associated with:

43. Inverted P-wave in lead. I, upright P-wave in aVR and gradual diminution of the height of R-waves in precordial leads are found in:

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

45. All of the following are common arrhythmias developing from AMI except:

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

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

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

49. S3 may be present in all except:

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