Cardiology

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

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

3. The ESR may be ‘zero’ in:

4. Which is false regarding dyspnoea?

5. Dressler’s syndrome results from:

6. Cardiac percussion is important in:

7. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

8. Graham Steel murmur is found in:

9. ‘Diastolic shock’ is not found in:

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

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

12. Commonest aetiology of tricuspid incompetence in clinical practice is:

13. Paroxysmal hypertension is classically found in:

14. Varying intensity of S1 is found in all except:

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

16. Stethoscope was invented by:

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

18. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

19. Hill’s sign is diagnostic of:

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

21. Incidence of infective endocarditis is least in:

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

23. Cardiac arrest may be due to:

24. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

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

26. Pulsus paradoxus is seen in all except:

27. Digitalis toxicity is associated with all except:

28. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

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

30. U-wave in EGG is characteristically found in:

31. All are commonly associated with ASD except:

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

33. ‘Hilar dance’ is characteristic of:

34. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

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

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

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

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

39. Syncopal attack is associated with all of the following except:

40. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?

41. All are class I antiarrhythmic drugs except:

42. Angio-oedema is not uncommon in treatment with:

43. Torsade de Pointes is associated with:

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

45. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

46. v-wave in JVP becomes prominent in:

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

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

49. The action of digitalis is augmented by:

50. S3 may be present in all except: