Cardiology — Flashcards

What condition should be suspected in a patient with hypercholesterolaemia and a personal/family history of coronary heart disease before the age of 60? _____

Children of a parent affected by familial hypercholesterolaemia should be referred for _____ at the earliest opportunity

_____ monitoring is required for potassium infusions >20 mmol/hr

_____ is upper venous congestion from the obstruction of the superior vena cava

Examination of the JVP in patients with superior vena cava obstruction reveals a _____

Hint: Clinical finding

Superior vena cava obstruction is characterised by impaired venous drainage of the _____, leading to oedema and distended superficial veins

Hint: 3 anatomical regions

A carotid artery endarterectomy procedure is considered if symptomatic (e.g.TIA, stroke) and carotid stenosis > _____%

The goal of statin therapy is to lower non-HDL cholesterol by more than _____%

A pulmonary embolism risk factor is recent _____ & 6 weeks postpartum

On ECG the most common finding of pulmonary embolism is _____