Cardiology

1. Which of the following beta-blockers is commonly used in heart failure?

2. All of the following may produce hemiplegia by cerebral embolism except:

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

4. Unilateral clubbing is found in all except:

5. The commonest congenital heart disease is:

6. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

8. Pulsus alternans is produced by:

9. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

10. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

11. Cardiac arrest may be due to:

12. Retrostemal chest pain classically occurs in all except:

13. In coarctation of aorta, rib notching is seen in:

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

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

16. Right axis deviation in ECG is found in:

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

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

19. Pregnancy-associated hypertension should not be treated with:

20. The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification for retinal changes is meant for:

21. Haemoptysis may be found in:

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

23. JVP is usually increased in:

24. Dressler’s syndrome results from:

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

26. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

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

28. ‘Fallot’s pentalogy’ is Fallot’s tetralogy plus:

29. Seagull murmur is not a feature of:

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

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

32. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

33. Coronary atherosclerosis is not linked to:

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

35. RBBB with left axis deviation in ECG is characteristically seen in:

36. Digitalis toxicity is associated with all except:

37. AR with low pulse pressure is found in all except:

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

39. Heart valve commonly affected by IV drug abusers is:

40. Still’s murmur is:

41. Incidence of infective endocarditis is least in:

42. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

43. Pedal pulse is ‘absent’ in all except:

44. P-wave in ECG is absent in:

45. All of the following may have unidigital clubbing except:

46. Osler’s node is classically seen in:

47. Exercise tolerance test is absolutely contraindicated in:

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

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

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