Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
CAD
Arrhythmias
Medications
Heart Murmurs
Valvular Disease
Diseases of the Aorta
100
These 2 drug classes are used for all patients with PAD
What are Antiplatelets and statins?
100
This procedure Improves survival in multivessel CAD with LV dysfunction (it also improves survival in multivessel CAD and diabetes)
What is a CABG?
100
This is the Initial diagnostic test for syncope when arrhythmia is suspected
What is a resting ECG?
100
You should avoid this drug class while taking nitrate therapy
What are Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors?
100
Asymptomatic murmurs require a TTE evaluation if they have one of the following qualities
Grade ≥3/6, late systolic or holosystolic, diastolic, or continuous
100
This is the Recommended heart valve type for patients older than 65 years (mechanical vs bioprosthetic)
What is a Bioprosthetic heart valve?
100
This condition is characterized by Upper extremity hypertension, radial-femoral pulse delay, and infraclavicular systolic murmur
What is an Aortic coarctation?
200
This is the ankle-brachial index (ABI) value diagnostic of PAD
What is ≤0.90?
200
This P2Y12 inhibitor has dyspnea as side effect
What is Ticagrelor?
200
These Drugs inhibit SVT induction and block AV conduction
What are β-Blockers and nondihydropyridine calcium channel blockers?
200
These medications are used in the Treatment of acute pericarditis
What are NSAIDs and colchicine?
200
This condition is characterized by a Late-peaking systolic murmur, diminished S2, delayed and diminished carotid upstroke
What is Severe aortic stenosis?
200
This is the recommended aortic valve type for patients younger than 50 years (mechanical vs bioprostetic)
What is a Mechanical heart valve?
200
Name an Indication for intervention in aortic coarctation
Systolic pressure gradient ≥20 mm Hg or evidence of collateral flow
300
This drug is used to improve symptoms of PAD despite antiplatelet and statin therapy
What is Cilostazol?
300
When a young woman during the peripartum period presents with ACS, this is the most likely diagnosis
What is a Spontaneous coronary artery dissection?
300
Name 3 drugs commonly associated with QT prolongation
antibiotics (e.g., macrolides like erythromycin, and fluoroquinolones), antipsychotics (e.g., haloperidol, quetiapine), antidepressants (e.g., citalopram, escitalopram), and other medications such as methadone and ondansetron
disopyramide, procainamide, quinidine, dofetilide, ibutilide, and sotalol
300
These are the Specific β-blockers associated with reduced mortality in patients with HFrEF
What are Bisoprolol, metoprolol succinate, and carvedilol?
300
This condition is characterized by Bounding peripheral pulses, diastolic decrescendo murmur along the sternal border
What is Aortic regurgitation?
300
This is the recommended Treatment of symptomatic chronic severe mitral regurgitation in a nonsurgical candidates
What is Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR)?
300
This is the systolic blood pressure target for acute aortic dissection
What is ≤120 mm Hg within 1 hour?
400
This is the diagnostic test for PAD if the ankle-brachial index (ABI) is >1.4
What is the Toe-brachial index?
400
These are the 3 Contraindications to early β-blocker therapy after STEMI
Cardiogenic shock, hypotension, conduction disturbance
400
This is a type of supra ventricular tachycardia with short PR interval and slurred QRS upstroke
Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT)
400
This is the prefered Drug class to use for therapy for inherited long QT syndrome
What are β-Blockers?
400
This condition is characterized by a continuous murmur heard beneath the left clavicle
What is a Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)?
400
This is how often you should get a TTE after a valve bioprothesis
You should get a TTE at 5 years, then annually starting at 10 years after valve replacement
400
This type of (acute) aortic dissection requires surgical repair
What is Acute type A aortic dissection ?
500
Name The "6 P's" of acute limb ischemia
Paresthesia, pain, pallor, pulselessness, poikilothermia (coolness), paralysis
500
This Syndrome is characterized by angina, abnormal stress test results, but normal coronary arteries on angiograms
What is Cardiac syndrome X (microvascular angina)?
500
This inherited disorder is characterized by ST-segment coving in leads V1-V3, VF, and cardiac arrest
What is Brugada syndrome?
500
This class of chemotherapy(used in both solid and hematologic malignancies) causes and Irreversible dilated cardiomyopathy
Anthracyclines (including doxorubicin, epirubicin, and idarubicin)
500
This condition is characterized by a Holosystolic murmur along left sternal border that increases with inspiration
What is Tricuspid regurgitation?
500
Name the TEE criteria for severe aortic stenosis
Valve area ≤1.0 cm2, peak velocity >4 m/s, mean gradient >40 mm Hg
500
Name the 3 indications for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Symptoms
size ≥5.5 cm
expansion >0.5 cm/year