Your Name: Anna Alexander     

Theme: Cardiac disease

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Acute bacterial endocarditis

I

Cardiomyopathy (Restrictive)

B

Acute rheumatic fever

J

Chronic rheumatic valvular disease

C

Aortic stenosis - acquired

K

Non infective endocarditis

D

Aortic stenosis - Degenerative

L

Pericarditis

E

Cardiac Failure

M

Subacute bacterial endocarditis

F

Cardiomyopathy (Dilated)

 

 

G

Cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic)

 

 

H

Cardiomyopathy (Obliterative)

 

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. A 10 year old boy presents with skin rash and joint pain in his elbows and knees. His mother tells you that he recently had a sore throat. On examination he is found to have an ejection systolic murmur and a friction rub.

 

 

2. A 69 year old woman is suffering from sudden onset fever and malaise. There is no previous history of heart disease. Auscultation reveals a heart murmur. She later develops sepsis.

 

 

3. A 40 year old man presents with a sharp chest pain. He has a pericardial friction rub, diminished heart sounds and a raised JVP.

 

 

4. A 25 year old man presents with palpitations. Chest X-ray shows an enlarged heart and echocardiogram shows thickening of the septum.

 

 

5. A 75 year old diabetic female with a history of 4 myocardial infarctions presents with shortness of breath and ankle swelling. She was found to have an enlarged liver and echocardiogram demonstrated a dilated heart.

 

 

ANSWERS

1. B

2. A

3. L

4. G

5. E