Cardiovascular Buzzwords

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Pericarditis

Question 2

Irregularly irregular pulse ?

Answer 2

AF

Question 3

ECG shows saw-toothed baseline + 150bpm ventricular rate?

Answer 3

Atrial flutter

Question 4

Raised JVP?

Answer 4

Right-sided heart failure

Question 5

Sense of impending doom?

Answer 5

MI

Question 6

Saddle-shaped ST elevation (widespread)?

Answer 6

Pericarditis

Question 7

Broad complex tachycardia?

Answer 7

Ventricular tachycardia

Question 8

Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplaced apex?

Answer 8

Mitral stenosis

Question 9

Broad QRS complex with a slurred upstroke on the R wave (delta wave)?

Answer 9

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

Question 10

Tall, tented T waves?

Answer 10

Hyperkalaemia (wide QRS complexes)

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

Janeway lesions/Osler’s nodes?

Answer 13

Subacute bacterial endocarditis

Question 14

Continuous machine-like heart murmur?

Answer 14

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)

Question 15

Rib-notching on CXR?

Answer 15

Aortic coarctation

Question 16

Crescendo decrescendo murmur?

Answer 16

Aortic stenosis

Question 17

Diminished absent lower limb pulses?

Answer 17

Aortic coarctation

Question 18

MRS ASS?

Answer 18

Mitral Regurgitation Systolic

Aortic Stenosis Systolic