Key Associations

Question 1

Dissecting aneurysm

Answer 1

Hypertension

Question 2

Ascending aortic aneurysm

Answer 2

Marfans -> cystic medial degeneration

Question 3

Aortic aneurysm, descending, abdominal

Answer 3

Atherosclerosis

Question 4

Cardiac tumor in kids

Answer 4

Rhabdomyoma

Question 5

Cardiac tumor in adults

Answer 5

Myxoma

Question 6

Constrictive pericarditis in developing world

Answer 6

TB

Question 7

Constrictive pericarditis in developed world

Answer 7

SLE

Question 8

Late cyanosis

Answer 8

1) VSD
2) ASD
3) PDA

Question 9

What causes death in CML?

Answer 9

Blast crises

Question 10

What causes death in lupus?

Answer 10

Lupus nephropathy

Question 11

Ejection click

Answer 11

Aortic, pulmonic stenosis

Question 12

Congenital heart murmur

Answer 12

Mitral valve prolapse

Question 13

HLA DR3/DR4

Answer 13

1) DM type 1
2) RA
3) SLE

Question 14

Kidney stones

Answer 14

Calcium -> radio opaque
Struvite -> radio opaque -> urease positive organisms
Uric acid -> radiolucent

Question 15

Malignancy associated with non-infectious fever

Answer 15

Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Question 16

Mets to brain

Answer 16

Lung, breast

Question 17

Myocarditis

Answer 17

Coxsackie B

Question 18

Nosocomial pneumonia

Answer 18

1) Klebsiella
2) E. coli
3) P. aerurginosa

Question 19

Opening snap

Answer 19

Mitral stenosis

Question 20

Osteomyelitis in IV drug user

Answer 20

1) Staph

2) P. aeruginosa

Question 21

Secondary hyperparathyroidism

Answer 21

Hypocalcemia of kidney disease

Question 22

SIADH

Answer 22

Small cell lung cancer

Question 23

Site of diverticula

Answer 23

Sigmoid colon

Question 24

Type of Hodgkin’s

Answer 24

Nodular sclerosis

Question 25

Type of non-hodgkin’s

Answer 25

Diffuse large B-cell

Question 26

Viral encephalitis affecting the temporal lobe

Answer 26

HSV-1