Cardiology

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

2. Bedside diagnosis of a classical case of SBE does not include:

3. Which of the following gives rise to pulsation at the back?

4. All are cardiovascular features of severe anaemia except:

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

6. Acute pericarditis is a recognised complication of all except:

7. Commonest congenital cyanotic heart disease with cyanosis at birth is:

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

9. Cardiac percussion is important in:

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

11. Graham Steel murmur is found in:

12. Left atrial failure is featured by all except:

13. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

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

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

16. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

17. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

18. Coarctation of aorta may be associated with all except:

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

20. Still’s murmur is:

21. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

22. lbutilide is an antiarrhythmic agent of:

23. Which chamber of heart fails first in MS?

24. Cri-du-chat syndrome does not have:

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

26. Diagnosis of AMI within 6 hrs depends on:

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

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

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

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

31. Seagull murmur is not a feature of:

32. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

34. Still’s murmur is:

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

36. The murmur of MS is:

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

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

39. ‘Ausatltatory gap’ in BP measurement is:

40. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

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

42. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

43. The chance of SBE is lowest in:

44. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

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

46. Myocarditis may be found in all except:

47. Which does not produce a regularly irregular pulse?

48. Stethoscope was invented by:

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

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