Valvular Heart Diseases

A 76-year-old man reports that for three months he has felt light-headed and has twice nearly fainted walking up the hill to the shops, together with a tight fe…

Pre-internship · common

A 34-year-old man who injects heroin presents with two weeks of fevers, sweats, a cough and pleuritic chest pain on both sides. His temperature is 39.2 °C, puls…

Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 52-year-old Aboriginal woman from a community in Cape York presents with a week of palpitations and breathlessness on walking to the store. She had several ep…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 26-year-old man is referred after a harsh systolic murmur is heard at a pre-season sports medical. He has no symptoms and plays club football. Echocardiograph…

Foundations · common

A 67-year-old man is recovering on the fourth day after an inferior myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention. He suddenly d…

Clinical rotations · common

A 48-year-old woman has a new holosystolic murmur and exertional dyspnoea. Echocardiography shows a regurgitant volume from the left ventricle into the left atr…

Mechanisms of disease · common

A 76-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after losing consciousness while pushing his lawnmower up a slope. His wife reports he went pale and co…

Clinical rotations · common

Which of the following is NOT a major criterion of acute rheumatic fever (ARF)?

Clinical rotations · common