Cardiovascular Exam

Question 1

What is finger clubbing a sign of?

Answer 1

1. Congenital cyanotic heart disease
2. Infective endocarditis
3. Atrial myxoma

Question 2

What are the three signs you see on the hands and feet that indicate infective endocarditis?

Answer 2

Splinter haemorrhages

Janeway lesions

Osler nodes

Question 3

What does a positive test for radio-radial delay indicate?

Answer 3

Subclavian artery stenosis

Aortic dissection

Aortic coarctation

Question 4

What could a collapsing pulse indicate?

Answer 4

Aortic regurgitation OR

Anaemia, thyrotoxicosis

Question 5

What does a slow rising brachial pulse indicate?

Answer 5

Aortic stenosis

Question 6

What does a bounding brachial pulse indicate?

Answer 6

Aortic regurgitation

Question 7

What does a thready brachial pulse indicate?

Answer 7

Intravascular hypovolaemia

Question 8

What is a raised JVP indicative of?

Answer 8

Right sided heart failure

Tricuspid regurgitation

Constrictive pericarditis

Question 9

Corneal arcus indicates

Answer 9

Hyperlipidemia

Hypertension

Question 10

Xanthelasma indicates

Answer 10

Hyperlipidaemia

Question 11

Kayser Fleischer

Answer 11

Wilson’s disease

Question 12

Conjunctival pallor

Answer 12

Anaemia

Question 13

Angular stomatitis

Answer 13

Iron deficiency

Question 14

High arch palate

Answer 14

Marfan syndrome

Question 15

Poor dental hygiene

Answer 15

Infective endocarditis