Cardiology

1. Which of the following does not produce a continuous murmur?

2. In a patient with MS in sinus rhythm, the severity of valvular lesion is indicated by:

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

4. Which of the following drugs raises HDL cholesterol?

5. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

6. A2 in aortic stenosis is characteristically:

7. The S2 in Fallot’s tetralogy:

8. Which of the following is not recognised to be an acute phase reactant?

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

10. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

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

12. Which of the following is not a ‘Major manifestation’ of Jones criteria in rheumatic fever?

13. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

14. Classical JVP finding in cardiac tamponade is:

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

16. Increased PR interval is observed in:

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

18. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

19. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

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

21. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

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

23. JVP is usually increased in:

24. All are cardiovascular features of severe anaemia except:

25. All are features associated with an acute attack of PND except:

26. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

28. Regrading neck venous pulsation, which is false?

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

30. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

31. Seagull murmur is not a feature of:

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

33. Long tubular heart in X-ray chest is found in all except:

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

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

36. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

37. Tall R-wave in lead V1 of the ECG is characteristic of which of the following:

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

39. Which of the following does not produce ‘fleeting’ arthritis?

40. Sudden death may occur in:

41. The action of digitalis is augmented by:

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

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

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

45. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

46. Cardiac percussion is important in:

47. Atrial myxomas may be associated with all except:

48. Murmur of floppy mitral valve increases with all except:

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

50. Digitalis toxicity is precipitated by all except: