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Pass the Boards With 5 Free Nuclear Cardiology Sample Questions

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Nuclear Cardiology See if you’re ready for the Nuclear Cardiology boards by answering these hard-hitting sample questions plucked from our very own nuclear cardiology question bank. A 48 year-old female with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic low back pain, and bilateral lower extremity neuropathy.

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Evaluation of JVP

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To revise the anatomy lessons, this is the external jugular vein and this is the internal jugular vein. Right atrial hypertrophy as in tricuspid stenosis, pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary hypertension. But in a VSD with pulmonary hypertension A wave is not prominent. A prominent A wave can occur when the atrium is hypertrophied.

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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in hypertensives are some of the features. Hypertensive heart disease is an important differential diagnosis, but SAM is rare in this situation and there is evidence of greater diastolic dysfunction in HCM. Evaluation of diastolic characteristics of LV and LV and coronary anatomy evaluation are other diagnostic uses of cath in HCM.