Cardiology

1. CPK-MB is increased in all except:

2. All are bedside differential diagnoses of MS except:

3. Clubbing is not a feature of:

4. Drug to be avoided in hypertensive encephalopathy?

5. Which one of the following is a centrally-acting antihypertensive drug?

6. Paroxysmal hypertension is classically found in:

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

8. Pericardial rub is best audible in all except:

9. Still’s murmur is:

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

11. Cardiac arrest may be due to:

12. Carey Coombs murmur is found in:

13. Murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is decreased by:

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

15. Loud A2 is present in:

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

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

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

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

20. Which of the following is present in most of the patients of SBE?

21. Accelerated hypertension should not have:

22. Kussmaul’s sign is not a feature of:

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

24. Which is false regarding juvenile mitral stenosis?

25. Which is true in ‘maladie de Roger’?

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

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

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

29. All are features of pericardial tamponade except:

30. Which of the following is not an aetiology of MR?

31. Which of the following drugs raises HDL cholesterol?

32. Which enzyme rises earliest in AMI?

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

34. Propranolol can be used in all except:

35. Differential cyanosis is found in:

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

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

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

39. Increased PR interval is observed in:

40. v-wave in JVP becomes prominent in:

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

42. S3 or S4 is best auscultated:

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

44. Endomyocardial fibrosis may be due to:

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

46. Holt-Oram syndrome is characterized by:

47. Haemoptysis may be found in:

48. Treatment by heparin is best monitored by:

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

50. Cardiac involvement is absent in: