Arab Board Internal Medicine Clinical Exam Practice Questions - Arab Board Internal Medicine Final Clinical And Oral Examination (ABHS) Exam

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A 74-year-old man presents with exertional presyncope and angina. On cardiovascular examination, you palpate a slow-rising, low-amplitude carotid pulse and auscultate a harsh crescendodecrescendo ejection systolic murmur at the right upper sternal border that peaks late in systole and radiates to the carotids. The second heart sound (S2) is soft and single. Which bedside physical finding most strongly correlates with severe aortic stenosis?

Early-peaking systolic murmur with a loud aortic component of S2 Pulsus parvus et tardus with late-peaking systolic murmur and paradoxical splitting of S2 Bounding, collapsing water-hammer pulse with wide pulse pressure Systolic click followed by a late systolic murmur accentuated by standing

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Pulsus parvus et tardus with late-peaking systolic murmur and paradoxical splitting of S2

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