Cardiovascular

Question 1

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

Answer 1

pericarditis

Question 2

ECG saw toothbase line, tachycardia

Answer 2

atrial flutter

Question 3

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

Answer 3

pulmonary oedema

Question 4

rasised JVP

Answer 4

right-sided heart failure

Question 5

sense of impending doom

Answer 5

MI

Question 6

saddle shaped ST elevation

Answer 6

pericarditis

Question 7

broad complex tachycardia

Answer 7

ventricular problem

Question 8

Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplaced apex

Answer 8

mitral stenosis

Question 9

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

Answer 9

wolff-parkinson-white syndrome

Question 10

tall, tented T waves

Answer 10

hyperkalaemia

Question 11

Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI

Answer 11

dressler’s syndrome

Question 12

‘Blurred yellowing vision headache”

Answer 12

digoxin toxicity

Question 13

Continuous Machine like Heart Murmur

Answer 13

patent ductus arteriosus

Question 14

rib knotching on CXR

Answer 14

coarctation of the aorta

Question 15

Diminished absent lower limb pulses

Answer 15

coarctation of the aorta

Question 16

Crescendo decrescendo murmur

Answer 16

aortic stenosis

Question 17

radial-radial delay

Answer 17

aortic dissection, coarctation of the aorta

Question 18

collapsing pulse

Answer 18

aortic regurgitation

Question 19

machine like murmur

Answer 19

patent ductus arteriosis – fails to close

Question 20

slow rising pulse

Answer 20

aortic stenosis

Question 21

a congenital heart disease with these main features; a large ventricular
septal defect, overriding
aorta, right ventricular outflow obstruction and right ventricular
hypertrophy

Answer 21

tetralogy of fallot

Question 22

wide pulse pressure

Answer 22

aortic regurgitation, aortic dissection, complete heart block, thryotoxicosis, persistent ductus arterioles