Cardiology

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

2. Pulsus alternans is produced by:

3. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

4. Propranolol can be used in all except:

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

6. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?

7. Seagull murmur is not a feature of:

8. The chance of SBE is lowest in:

9. Dressler’s syndrome results from:

10. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

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

12. In right ventricular myocardial infarction, which of the following additional therapies is needed?

13. Congestive cardiac failure may be seen in all except:

14. S3 may be present in all except:

15. v-wave in JVP becomes prominent in:

16. Cardiac involvement is absent in:

17. Double apex in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is mainly due to:

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

19. Lutembacher’s syndrome is:

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

21. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

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

23. All are commonly associated with ASD except:

24. Carey Coombs murmur is found in:

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

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

27. Pulsus bisferiens is best perceived in which artery?

28. Accelerated hypertension should not have:

29. ‘Ausatltatory gap’ in BP measurement is:

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

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

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

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

34. Which is least common in cardiac tamponade?

35. All are true in severe PS except:

36. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

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

38. Hill’s sign is diagnostic of:

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

40. Cardiac percussion is important in:

41. Right axis deviation in ECG is found in:

42. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

43. Myocarditis may be found in all except:

44. All of the following are causes of intermittent claudication except:

45. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

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

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

48. Kussmaul’s sign is present in:

49. Which is not a feature of atrial myxoma?

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