Cardiology

1. Differential cyanosis is found in:

2. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

3. The commonest cause of displacement of apex beat is:

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

5. Graham Steel murmur is found in:

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

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

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

9. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

10. The least common complication of MS is:

11. All are class I antiarrhythmic drugs except:

12. High-volume double-peaked pulse is found in all except:

13. Kussmaul’s sign is present in:

14. ‘Hilar dance’ is characteristic of:

15. Exercise tolerance test is absolutely contraindicated in:

16. The chance of SBE is lowest in:

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

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

19. All of the following produce systemic hypertension except:

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

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

22. S3 may be present in all except:

23. Which is not an example of vasospastic disorder?

24. Which does not produce a regularly irregular pulse?

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

26. Pulsus alternans is produced by:

27. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

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

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

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

31. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

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

33. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

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

35. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?

36. Cardiac percussion is important in:

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

38. The disease with male preponderance is:

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

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

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

42. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

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

44. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

45. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

46. Which is not a feature of atrial myxoma?

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

48. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

49. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

50. Which is not included in ‘lipid tetrad’ in risk factors for coronary heart disease?