Cardiovascular buzzwords

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Pericarditis

Question 2

Irregularly irregular pulse

Answer 2

Atrial fibrillation

Question 3

ECG saw-tooth baseline + 150bpm

Answer 3

Atrial flutter

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Pulmonary oedema

Question 5

Raised JVP/hepatojugular

Answer 5

Right sided heart failure

Question 6

Sense of impending doom

Answer 6

MI

Question 7

Saddle shaped ST elevation

Answer 7

Pericarditis

Question 8

Broad complex tachycardia

Answer 8

Ventricular problem

Question 9

Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplaced apex

Answer 9

Mitral stenosis

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

Question 11

Tall, tented T waves

Answer 11

Hyperkalaemia (and wide QRS complexes

Question 12

Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI

Answer 12

Dressler’s syndrome

Question 13

Blurred yellowing vision headache

Answer 13

Digoxin toxicity

Question 14

Janeway lesions/Osler’s nodes

Answer 14

Sub-acute bacterial endocarditis

Question 15

Continuous machine like heart murmur

Answer 15

Patent ductus arteriosus

Question 16

Rib notching on CXR

Answer 16

Coarctation of the aorta

Question 17

Crescendo diminuendo murmur

Answer 17

Aortic stenosis

Question 18

Diminished absent lower limb pulses

Answer 18

Coarctation of the aorta

Question 19

MR ASS

Answer 19

Mitral Regurgitation
Aortic Stenosis
Systolic