Cardiology

1. Hypocalcaemia arrests the heart in:

2. Ventricular fibrillation is best treated by:

3. Propranolol can be used in all except:

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

5. Which of the following is not a ‘Major manifestation’ of Jones criteria in rheumatic fever?

6. Boot-shaped heart with oligaemic lung fields is found in:

7. Reversed splitting of S2 is found in:

8. Giant a-wave in neck vein is seen in:

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

10. Endomyocardial fibrosis may be due to:

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

12. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

13. The main use of norepinephrine is to treat:

14. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

15. The ESR may be ‘zero’ in:

16. Regarding Kerley’s B lines, all of the following are true except:

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

18. Which of the following is not a side effect of amiodarone?

19. The chance of SBE is lowest in:

20. Which is false regarding dyspnoea?

21. Pulsus bisferiens is found in:

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

23. ‘Hilar dance’ is characteristic of:

24. All are bedside differential diagnoses of MS except:

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

26. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

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

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

29. The ECG finding in hypercalcaemia is:

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

31. Arterio-venous fistula is associated with:

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

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

34. Sudden death may occur in:

35. Cardiomyopathy may follow treatment with:

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

37. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

38. Janeway’s spot in SBE is found in:

39. Clubbing is not a feature of:

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

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

42. All of the following are common arrhythmias developing from AMI except:

43. Cardiac syncope is characterised by:

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

45. Mental retardation, squint, and idiopathic hypercalcaemia may be associated with stenosis of:

46. All are class I antiarrhythmic drugs except:

47. Verapamil is indicated in all except:

48. Slow rising pulse is a feature of:

49. P-wave in ECG is absent in:

50. Which drug prolongs life in chronic stable angina?