Cardiology

Question 1

Patient with fever and pleuritic chest pain which is relieved by sitting forward

Answer 1

pericarditis

Question 2

irregularly irregular pulse

Answer 2

Atrial fibrillation

Question 3

Raised JVP/ hepatojugular

Answer 3

right sided heart failure

Question 4

Sense of impending doom

Answer 4

MI

Question 5

saddle shaped ST elevation

Answer 5

Pericarditis

Question 6

Broad complex tachycardia

Answer 6

ventricular problem

Question 7

Mid-diastolic murmur with tapping apex beat

Answer 7

mitral stenosis

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

Question 9

Tall, tented T waves

Answer 9

hyperkalaemia (and wide QRS complexes)

Question 10

Patients gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI

Answer 10

Dressler’s syndrome

Question 11

Blurred yellowing vision headache

Answer 11

digoxin toxicity

Question 12

Janeway lesion/ Osler’s nodes

Answer 12

subacute bacterial endocarditis

Question 13

continuous machine like heart murmur

Answer 13

patent ductus arteriosus

Question 14

Rib notching on CXR

Answer 14

coarcation of the aorta

Question 15

crescendo decresendo murmur

Answer 15

aortic stenosis

Question 16

Diminished absent lower limb pulses

Answer 16

coarcation of the aorta

Question 17

ECG - saw tooth baseline + 150bpm

Answer 17

Atrial flutter

Question 18

MRS ASS

Answer 18

Mitral Regurgitation Systolic, Aortic Stenosis Systolic