CVPGI Final/Exam 2 Questions And Correct
Answers 2025-2026
Irreversible pulmonary hypertension is least likely in______
a. Ventricular septal defect
b. Atrial septal defect
c. Persistent truncus arteriosus
d. Tetralogy of Fallot - ANSWER>>Atrial septal defect
Features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include all the following except
a. Harsh systolic ejection murmur
b. The presence of mitochondrial anomalies
c. Atrial fibrillation
d. Mural thrombus formation and embolization - ANSWER>>The presence of
mitochondrial anomalies
Pulmonary congestion and edema are characteristic of.
a. Right ventricular hypertrophy
b. Left-sided congestive heart failure
c. Right-sided congestive heart failure
d. Ventricular septal defect - ANSWER>>Left-sided congestive heart failure
A 75-year-old man develops angina, has no history of coronary artery disease, nor
rheumatic fever. Imaging and examination show heaped up calcified masses on the
aortic valve. What is the likely diagnosis?
a. Senile calcific aortic stenosis
, b. Post-streptococcal valve disease
c. Mitral annular calcification
d. Calcific mitral of bicuspid aortic valve - ANSWER>>Senile calcific aortic stenosis
In Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, there is diastolic dysfunction.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>True
The left AV valve leaflet is described as "balloon-like" or "hooded" in:
a. Infective endocarditis
b. Restrictive cardiomyopathy
c. Mitral valve prolapse
d. Libman-stacks endocarditis - ANSWER>>Mitral valve prolapse
Which of these lesions refers to red patches in the fundus (retina) in patients with
infective endocarditis?
a. Roth spots
b. Petechial rash
c. Splinter hemorrhage
d. Osler's nodes - ANSWER>>Roth spots
Thick myocardial wall, small chamber size, and abnormal diastolic filling often due to
genetic inheritance of abnormal sarcomere proteins.
a. Dilated cardiomyopathy
b. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
c. Restrictive cardiomyopathy - ANSWER>>Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Sterile vegetations, myocarditis, amd fifbrinous pericarditis are associated with.
Answers 2025-2026
Irreversible pulmonary hypertension is least likely in______
a. Ventricular septal defect
b. Atrial septal defect
c. Persistent truncus arteriosus
d. Tetralogy of Fallot - ANSWER>>Atrial septal defect
Features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include all the following except
a. Harsh systolic ejection murmur
b. The presence of mitochondrial anomalies
c. Atrial fibrillation
d. Mural thrombus formation and embolization - ANSWER>>The presence of
mitochondrial anomalies
Pulmonary congestion and edema are characteristic of.
a. Right ventricular hypertrophy
b. Left-sided congestive heart failure
c. Right-sided congestive heart failure
d. Ventricular septal defect - ANSWER>>Left-sided congestive heart failure
A 75-year-old man develops angina, has no history of coronary artery disease, nor
rheumatic fever. Imaging and examination show heaped up calcified masses on the
aortic valve. What is the likely diagnosis?
a. Senile calcific aortic stenosis
, b. Post-streptococcal valve disease
c. Mitral annular calcification
d. Calcific mitral of bicuspid aortic valve - ANSWER>>Senile calcific aortic stenosis
In Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, there is diastolic dysfunction.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>True
The left AV valve leaflet is described as "balloon-like" or "hooded" in:
a. Infective endocarditis
b. Restrictive cardiomyopathy
c. Mitral valve prolapse
d. Libman-stacks endocarditis - ANSWER>>Mitral valve prolapse
Which of these lesions refers to red patches in the fundus (retina) in patients with
infective endocarditis?
a. Roth spots
b. Petechial rash
c. Splinter hemorrhage
d. Osler's nodes - ANSWER>>Roth spots
Thick myocardial wall, small chamber size, and abnormal diastolic filling often due to
genetic inheritance of abnormal sarcomere proteins.
a. Dilated cardiomyopathy
b. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
c. Restrictive cardiomyopathy - ANSWER>>Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Sterile vegetations, myocarditis, amd fifbrinous pericarditis are associated with.
