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Cardiology Flashcards

1
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Patient has fever and pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward

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Pericarditis

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2
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Irregularly irregular pulse

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Atrial Fibrillation

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3
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ECG - saw tooth baseline + 150bpm

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Atrial Flutter

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4
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Alveolar bat’s wings, Kerley B lines, cardiomegaly, dilated prominent upper libe vessels pleural effusion

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Pulmonary oedema

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5
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Raised JVP/ hepatojugular

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Right sided heart failure

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6
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Sense of impending doom

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MI

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7
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Saddle shaped ST elevation

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Pericarditics

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8
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Broad complex tachycardia

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Ventricular problme

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9
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Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplayed apex

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Mitral stenosis

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10
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Broad QRS with slurred upstroke on R wave (delta wave)

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Wolff-Parkinson-white syndrome

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11
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Tall tented T waves

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Hyperkalaemia

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12
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Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI

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Dressler’s sndrome

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13
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Blurred yellowing vision headache

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Digoxin Toxicity

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14
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January Lesions/ Osler’s Nodes

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Subacute bacterial endocarditis

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15
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Continuous Machine like heart murmur

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Patent Ductus Arteriosus

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16
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Rib notching on CXR

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Coarctation of the aorta

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17
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Crescendo decrescendo murmur

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Aortic stenosis

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18
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Diminished absent lower limb pulses

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Coarctation of the aorta

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19
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MRS ASS

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Mitral regurgitations systolic, aortic stenosis systolic

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20
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Different sized kidneys

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renal artery stenosis

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21
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Elevated catecholamines

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Phaeochromocytoma

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22
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Loud S1 and plopping sound in early diastole

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Left atrial myxoma

23
Q

Muffled heart sounds

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fluid in pericardial sac

Cardiac tamponade

24
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Management of cardiac tamponade

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Pericardiocentesis

25
Q

Breast tenderness (males)

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spironolactone

26
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Raised cardiac enzymes and flu

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Myocarditis

27
Q

Opening snap and rumbling diastolic murmur, diastolic thrill over apex

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Mitral stenosis

28
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Verrucous vegetations. Anti-phospholipid antibody positive

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Libman-Sacks endocarditis

29
Q

Thiamine deficiency and poor near exam

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Beri beri

30
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Unexplained tachycardias, bradycardia with ventricular pacing

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Pacemaker syndrome

31
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Low K+ and low Mg+ with QT prolongation

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Torsade de pointes

32
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AG after heavy alcohol intake

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Holiday heart

33
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Large JVP v wave

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Tricuspid regurgitation

34
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Grey slate rash

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Amiodarone

35
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Reversal of internal organs, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis

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Kartagener’s syndrome

36
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Aching muscles

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Simvastatin

37
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Ejection systolic murmur decreased by squatting

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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

38
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Increased cardiac dullness, difficult to palpate apex, low BP and pulse pressure

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Pericardial effusion

39
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Visible capillary pulsation in fingers.

Head bobbing, early diastolic murmur

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Arotic regurgitation

40
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Reintal haemorrahges

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Roth’s spots

41
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Alternate flushing, blanching of finger nail

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Quince’s sign

42
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Painful pulp of fingers or toes caused by bacterial endocarditis

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Osler’s nodes

43
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X and y descent in JVP

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Constrictive pericarditis

44
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Right ventricular hypertrophy pulmonary stenosis overriding aorta and ventricular septal defect all occur in

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Fallon’s tetralogy

45
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Treatment for symptomatic mitral stenosis

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Balloon valvulopasty

46
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Abrupt distension and collapse of carotid arteries

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Carrigan’s sign caused by aortic regurgtation

47
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Turner’s syndrome and coartciation of aorta are closely associated

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Rheumatic fever and mitral stenosis are common

48
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Delta wave in V1

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WPW

49
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ST depression and tall R waves in V1, V2

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Posterior MI

50
Q

Systolic murmur and weak or unequal pulses

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cortication of the aorta

51
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Moon face, purple striae on abdomen

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Cushing syndrome

52
Q

Prominent jaw and brow. Glycosuria.

Sweating and headache

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Acromegaly

53
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Rheumatic fever coincides with

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Mitral stenosis

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