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Question 1
In a Cardiovascular station you palpate a 4-year-old and find the apex beat in the 6th intercostal space, lateral to the mid-clavicular line, with a heave at the left sternal edge. Which interpretation should you offer the examiner?
Correct Answer:
Cardiomegaly with a displaced apex and a right ventricular heave suggesting volume/pressure load
Question 2
During the Cardiovascular station you hear a continuous 'machinery' murmur loudest at the left infraclavicular region in a 2-year-old ex-premature child. What is the most likely diagnosis to present to the examiner?
Correct Answer:
Patent ductus arteriosus
Question 3
You are asked to examine the cardiovascular system of a 5-year-old. Which feature would most strongly distinguish an INNOCENT murmur from a pathological one in your presentation?
Correct Answer:
A soft, short systolic murmur that varies with posture, with normal pulses and no thrill
Question 4
A child in the Cardiovascular station has a midline sternotomy scar, central cyanosis and clubbing. The most appropriate next statement to the examiner is that these findings are most consistent with which group of conditions?
Correct Answer:
Previously palliated/repaired cyanotic congenital heart disease such as tetralogy of Fallot
Question 5
When examining pulses in the Cardiovascular station, you find the femoral pulses are weak and delayed compared with the right brachial (radio-femoral delay). What is the most important diagnosis this finding raises?
Correct Answer:
Coarctation of the aorta
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