Cardiology

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

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

3. Malar flush is found in all except:

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

5. Cardiac involvement is absent in:

6. Electrical alternans in ECG is seen in:

7. Still’s murmur is:

8. Clubbing is not a feature of:

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

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

11. All are true in severe PS except:

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

13. All of the following may produce hemiplegia by cerebral embolism except:

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

15. JVP is usually increased in:

16. The commonest cause of death in an adult with PDA is:

17. Which drug prolongs life in chronic stable angina?

18. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

19. Osler’s node is classically seen in:

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

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

22. Most common cardiac lesion in carcinoid syndrome is:

23. Cardiac arrest may be due to:

24. Ideally, the connecting tube of the stethoscope should be:

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

26. Accelerated hypertension should not have:

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

28. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

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

30. Left ventricular hypertrophy is not associated with:

31. S1, S2, S3 syndrome in ECG is seen in:

32. Dressler’s syndrome results from:

33. Earliest valvular lesion in acute rheumatic carditis is:

34. X-ray appearance of calcification of patent ductus arteriosus is:

35. Coronary atherosclerosis is not linked to:

36. Left parasternal heave is diagnostic of:

37. Commonest heart valve abnormality revealed after AMI is:

38. Paroxysmal hypertension is classically found in:

39. The murmur of MS is:

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

41. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?

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

43. Acute subendocardial infarction will have ECG findings:

44. Right axis deviation in ECG is found in:

45. Which of the following is false regarding oedema in congestive cardiac failure?

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

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

48. Muffled S1 is found in alt except:

49. Lutembacher’s syndrome is:

50. Acute myocardial infarction of posterior wall of left ventricle will show in the ECG: