Cardiology

1. Which of the following is not advocated in the treatment of acute pulmonary oedema?

2. Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure is increased in all except:

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

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

5. When a patient of unstable angina worsens by nitroglycerine, the diagnosis is:

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

7. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

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

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

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

11. Stethoscope was invented by:

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

13. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

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

15. Which of the following is not a recognised risk factor for early atherosclerosis?

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

17. Which of the following is the least important cause of dissection of aorta?

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

19. ‘Hilar dance’ is characteristic of:

20. All are bedside differential diagnoses of MS except:

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

22. Cardiac involvement is absent in:

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

24. Which drug prolongs life in chronic stable angina?

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

26. Echocardiography can detect the presence of pericardial fluid as little as:

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

28. Which of the following does not produce a continuous murmur over the chest?

29. Still’s murmur is:

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

31. Delta wave in ECG is found in:

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

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

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

35. Which one of the following is false regarding Austin Flint murmur?

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

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

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

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

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

41. Unilateral clubbing is found in all except:

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

43. Syphilis may give rise to:

44. Inverted P-wave in lead. I, upright P-wave in aVR and gradual diminution of the height of R-waves in precordial leads are found in:

45. Increased PR interval is observed in:

46. Intracardiac calcification usually indicates:

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

48. The murmur of MS is:

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

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