Cardiovascular 1
Most common cause of tricuspid stenosis
Rheumatic disease
Primary diagnostic test for evaluation of HF
Echocardiography
Most common tachycardia, typically related to physiologic demand
Sinus tachycardia
Drug options available for high-intensity statin
Atorvastatin, 40-80 mg/d; rosuvastatin, 20-40 mg/d
Fixed split S2, right axis deviation, incomplete RBBB
Ostium secundum ASD
Primary symptoms of severe aortic stenosis
Dyspnea, angina, syncope
Drug treatment for tricuspid regurgitation with right HF
Loop diuretics and aldosterone antagonists
Diagnostic testing option for infrequent symptomatic palpitations or syncope
Ambulatory ECG monitor or event recorder
Strategy to avoid nitrate tolerance
12-Hour nitrate-free interval
Vascular complication of Marfan syndrome during pregnancy
Aortic dissection and rupture
Treatment of chronic severe mitral regurgitation with LV dysfunction or dilation
Mitral valve repair
Indication for aldosterone antagonist for HFrEF
NYHA functional class II-IV HFrEF or after acute MI
Drug therapy for inherited long QT syndrome
β-Blocker
Timing of ACE inhibitor and/or ARB initiation after STEMI
Within 24 hours
Bridging therapy for hemodynamic instability in cardiac tamponade
Normal saline infusion
Surgical indications for chronic aortic regurgitation
Symptoms, LVEF ≤55%, LV dilatation
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy ICD indications
LVEF ≤35% and NYHA functional class II-III symptoms
ECG findings of acute pericarditis
Multiple-lead ST-segment elevation and PR-segment depression in lead II
ABI value diagnostic of PAD
≤0.90
Target systolic BP for acute aortic dissection
≤120 mm Hg within 1 hour
Contraindications for percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy to treat mitral stenosis
Left atrial thrombus, moderate mitral regurgitation, severely calcified valve
Imaging to distinguish different subtypes of cardiac amyloid
99m-Technetium pyrophosphate scintigraphy
ST-segment coving in leads V1-V3, ventricular tachyarrhythmias, SCD
Brugada syndrome
Indications for immediate invasive treatment in non–ST-elevation ACS
Hemodynamic instability, refractory chest pain, HF, arrhythmias
Asymptomatic murmurs that require TTE evaluation
Grade ≥3/6, late systolic or holosystolic, diastolic, or continuous