Cardiology

1. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

3. CPK-MB is increased in all except:

4. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

5. A2 in aortic stenosis is characteristically:

6. Atrial myxomas may be associated with all except:

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

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

9. Haemoptysis may be found in:

10. Hill’s sign is diagnostic of:

11. The sound best audible by the bell of a stethoscope is:

12. 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:

13. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

14. Which does not produce a regularly irregular pulse?

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

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

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

18. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

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

20. Sphygmomanometer cannot diagnose:

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

22. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

23. Muffled S1 is found in alt except:

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

25. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

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

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

28. Digitalis toxicity is precipitated by all except:

29. Syphilis may give rise to:

30. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

31. Osler’s node is classically seen in:

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

33. Increased PR interval is observed in:

34. The commonest congenital heart disease is:

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

36. The normal blood volume in an adult male is approximately:

37. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

38. Pulsus paradoxus is seen in all except:

39. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

40. Pulsus bisferiens is best perceived in which artery?

41. Which of the following is not a recognised risk factor for early atherosclerosis?

42. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

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

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

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

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

47. S3 may be present in all except:

48. A pericardial friction rub may have any of the components except:

49. Acute pericarditis is a recognised complication of all except:

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