Q. Which of the following is smallest cardiac valve? A. Aortic valve B. Mitral valve C. Tricuspid valve D. Pulmonary valve Answer: D. Pulmonary valve Tricuspid valve is largest whereas pulmonary valve is smallest.
Q. Patient being evaluated for cause of ascites. Constrictive pericarditis or Restrictive cardiomyopathy? Simultaneous LV and RV pressure trace is being shown here. Answer: Here, RV and LV discordance is present which is suggestive of constrictive pericarditis. RCM will have LV and RV concordance during respiration.
Q 1. Contrast CT angiography of a patient. What is the Diagnosis? Q 2. What is optimum mode of management? Answer 1: Type A aortic dissection Answer 2: Surgical repair
Q 1. Patient with intracranial hemorrhage found to have weak femoral pulses. What may be the diagnosis? Q 2. What is the cause of intracranial hemorrhage? Answer 1: Coarctation of Aorta (CoA)- See the notching of inferior margins of ribs Answer 2: Ruptured Berry's aneurysm
1. What is the diagnosis? 2. What is the name of this sign? Answer 1: Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) Answers 2: Brockenbrough-Braunwald-Morrow sign Explanation: There is a decrease in pulse pressure and increase in left ventricular outflow tract gradient after the ventricular ectopic beat in HOCM patients. This phenomenon is known as Brockenbrough-Braunwald-Morrow phenomenon or sign.
Q 1. What does arrow indicate? Q 2. What is the diagnosis of the patient? Answer 1: Epsilon wave Answer 2: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC)