Download DNB 2017 Dec CARDIOLOGY CARDIO PAPER II Question Paper

FirstRanker.com

DECEMBER 2017

CARDIOLOGY

--- Content provided by‍ FirstRanker.com ---

PAPER — II

Time : 3 hours CARD/D/17/05/11 Max. Marks : 100

Important instructions:

• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.

--- Content provided by​ FirstRanker.com ---

• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.

--- Content provided by‌ FirstRanker.com ---

• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.

Write short notes on:

1. a) LV remodeling. 4+3+3
   b) AHA /ACC staging of heart failure
   c) Cardiac catheterization in heart failure

--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---

2. a) Mechanism of arrhythmogenesis. 4+3+3
   b) Differential diagnosis of wide-QRS tachycardia
   c) ICD - indications and recent trials
3. a) Sinus Node function assessment 3+3+4
   b) Class I-A anti-arrhythmic drugs
   

   --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---

   c) VPCs - Diagnosis; clinical implication and management
4. a) How do you differentiate athlete’s heart from Hypertrophic 4+3+3
   Cardiomyopathy (HCM).
   b) Natural history of HCM.
   c) Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death in HCM.

--- Content provided by‌ FirstRanker.com ---

5. a) Different types of prosthetic valves 4+3+3
   b) Management of pregnancy with prosthetic valve.
   c) Prosthetic valve endocarditis — diagnosis and management
6. a) Risk stratification of acute coronary syndrome. 4+3+3
   b) Post-MI ventricular septal rupture — diagnosis and management.
   

   --- Content provided by‍ FirstRanker.com ---

   c) Recent trials on fibrin specific fibrinolytic agents in acute MI.
7. a) Mitral apparatus — anatomy 3+4+3
   b) Pathophysiology of mitral Regurgitation (MR)
   c) Echo assessment of MR for surgery.
8. a) Restrictive cardiomyopathy — clinical, echocardiographic 6+4
   

   --- Content provided by​ FirstRanker.com ---

   and hemodynamic assessment.
   b) Cardiac amyloidosis.
9. Role of cardiac MRI in — 4+4+2
   a) Cardiomyopathy
   b) Ischemic Heart Disease
   

   --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---

   c) Prognostification of myocarditis
10. Echocardiographic assessment of - 3+4+3
    a) Coronary Artery territory.
    b) Constrictive pericarditis
    c) Ventricular Synchrony.

--- Content provided by‍ FirstRanker.com ---

FirstRanker.com