Cardiovascular medicine 1
Term for intermittent and irregular jugular venous pulsations of greater amplitude than normal reflecting simultaneous atrial and ventricular contraction
Cannon a waves
Valvular abnormality associated with systolic and diastolic 'pistol shot' sounds heard over the femoral artery
Aortic regurgitation
Acute MI mimicker that occurs predominantly in older women who may have normal coronary arteries but an abnormal echocardiogram
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (accept Takotsubo syndrome, TTS, stress cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome)
Recommended endocarditis prophylaxis for a patient with native valve aortic stenosis undergoing dental extraction
None
Office measurement to identify lower extremity peripheral artery disease
Ankle-brachial index (accept ABI)
Most common objective finding of Lyme carditis
Atrioventricular conduction block (accept AV nodal block or AV block)
Time duration that differentiates sustained from non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
30 seconds
Antiplatelet prodrug that requires two enzymatic conversions in the liver before being active
Clopidogrel (accept Plavix)
Ejection fraction cutoff for the diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
40%
Valvular disorder characterized by a late-peaking systolic murmur, a delayed weak pulse, and diminished S2
Aortic stenosis (accept severe aortic stenosis)
Eponym for syndrome of chest pain, diffuse ST-segment elevation, PR depression and pericardial friction rub 2 weeks after MI
Dressler syndrome
Inhibition of this endopeptidase raises levels of circulating natriuretic peptides for treatment of heart failure
Neprilysin (do not accept sacubitril)
Restrictive cardiomyopathy that has a 'speckled pattern' in echocardiogram
Cardiac amyloidosis (accept amyloidosis)
Anti-anginal medication associated with reduced intracellular calcium levels and QT-prolongation
Ranolazine
First FDA-approved oral direct thrombin inhibitor
Dabigatran (accept Pradaxa)
Heart failure therapy involving biventricular pacing to improve cardiac output
Cardiac resynchronization
Eponymous name of criteria for evaluating acute myocardial infarction in the setting of left bundle branch block
Sgarbossa criteria
First SGLT2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in adults with and without type 2 diabetes
Dapagliflozin (accept Farxiga)
Sinoatrial node modulator approved by the FDA for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Ivabradine (accept Procoralan or Corlanor)
Second-degree heart block with progressive prolongation of the PR interval until a beat is dropped
Wenckebach (accept Mobitz type 1)
Two cardiac valves in which regurgitation can cause a pulsatile liver
Tricuspid and aortic
Cardiac abnormality associated with platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome
Interatrial shunt (accept patent foramen ovale (PFO); atrial septal defect; fenestrated atrial septal aneurysm)
Eponymous name for method of determining cardiac output using the arteriovenous oxygen concentration difference
Fick method (accept Fick principle)
Condition also known as Kounis syndrome
Allergic acute coronary syndrome (accept hypersensitivity AMI or hypersensitivity angina)
Eponymous congenital heart disease presenting as severe pulmonary hypertension resulting in right-to-left shunt reversal
Eisenmenger syndrome