CARDIOVASCULAR EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ SUCCEED
• Which characteristic changes should the nurse keep in mind while caring for a patient
with left heart failure? As left heart failure progresses:
A. Left ventricular preload increases.
B. Systemic vascular resistance.
C. Left-end diastolic volume decreases.
D. The pulse pressure widens.
• Which of the following factors is NOT commonly associated with the development
of hypertension?
A. Obesity
B. Insulin resistance
C. Altered Natriuretic peptide hormones and salt retention
D. High dietary levels of Ca++ K+ and Mg+
• Your patient with a history of coronary artery disease and regular chest pain brought on
by exercise of a certain duration now has significant and worsening chest pain,
sweating, and mild dyspnea. Which of the following statements is true regarding this
patient?
A. He has unstable angina
B. He is at significant risk of an infarction soon
C. The pain is a signal that an atherosclerotic plaque has just ruptured in a coronary vein
D. All of the above are true
• The disorder of the myocardium that is characterized by normal systolic but
increased diastolic pressure due to abnormal filling of either or both ventricles and
normal wall thickness is:
A. Dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy
B. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
C. Valvular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
D. Restrictive cardiomyopathy
• An aortic semilunar valve prolapse would best be heard during:
A. Ventricular systole
B. Ventricular diastole
, C. The entire cardiac cycle
D. None of the above
• In cardiac muscle, Na+ inactivation gates will open again following another depolarization
to potentially occur when:
A. The membrane potential reaches 0mV.
B. When the membrane returns to resting potential
C. K+ channels are closed
D. Membrane potential reaches a threshold
• Which of the following valvular abnormalities does NOT result in a potential for dyspnea
and pulmonary edema?
A. Mitral valve prolapse
B. Tricuspid valve regurgitation
C. Aortic Stenosis
D. Mitral Stenosis
• Your patient describes chest pain that has been regularly showing up, generally following the
exercise of a specific duration/intensity. You know he was a smoker, is overweight with a poor diet,
and was recently shown to have hyperlipidemia through recent blood tests, The chest pain is most
likely:
An Intermittent claudication
A. Unstable angina
B. Stable Angina
C. Prinzmetal angina
• Which of the following is not a systemic disease that is associated with the Raynaud phenomenon?
A. Congestive heart failure
, B. Collagen vascular diseases such as scleroderma
C. Pulmonary hypertension
D. Myxedema or smoking
• The is an opening for venous drainage to empty into the right atrium:
A. Aortic Ostia
B. Circumflex vein
C. Great cardiac vein
D. Coronary sinus
• Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for varicose veins?
A. Age > 40 yrs
B. High estrogen levels (pregnancy or BCP)
C. Obesity
D. Prior injury in the vein/leg
E. All of the above are risk factors for varicose veins
• The cells of the cardiac conduction system (SA node, AV node, Purkinje fibers) have a unique
property that allows a steady leakage toward depolarization during the diastolic phase of the
cardiac cycle. This property is called:
A. Automaticity
B. Excitability
C. Refractory periods
D. Preload
E. Arterial chemoreceptors within the aortic arch and carotid arteries:
• The portion of troponin that binds the troponin complex to actin and is released into the
plasma during cardiac cell damage(and is a useful indicator of an acute MI) is troponin:
• Which characteristic changes should the nurse keep in mind while caring for a patient
with left heart failure? As left heart failure progresses:
A. Left ventricular preload increases.
B. Systemic vascular resistance.
C. Left-end diastolic volume decreases.
D. The pulse pressure widens.
• Which of the following factors is NOT commonly associated with the development
of hypertension?
A. Obesity
B. Insulin resistance
C. Altered Natriuretic peptide hormones and salt retention
D. High dietary levels of Ca++ K+ and Mg+
• Your patient with a history of coronary artery disease and regular chest pain brought on
by exercise of a certain duration now has significant and worsening chest pain,
sweating, and mild dyspnea. Which of the following statements is true regarding this
patient?
A. He has unstable angina
B. He is at significant risk of an infarction soon
C. The pain is a signal that an atherosclerotic plaque has just ruptured in a coronary vein
D. All of the above are true
• The disorder of the myocardium that is characterized by normal systolic but
increased diastolic pressure due to abnormal filling of either or both ventricles and
normal wall thickness is:
A. Dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy
B. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
C. Valvular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
D. Restrictive cardiomyopathy
• An aortic semilunar valve prolapse would best be heard during:
A. Ventricular systole
B. Ventricular diastole
, C. The entire cardiac cycle
D. None of the above
• In cardiac muscle, Na+ inactivation gates will open again following another depolarization
to potentially occur when:
A. The membrane potential reaches 0mV.
B. When the membrane returns to resting potential
C. K+ channels are closed
D. Membrane potential reaches a threshold
• Which of the following valvular abnormalities does NOT result in a potential for dyspnea
and pulmonary edema?
A. Mitral valve prolapse
B. Tricuspid valve regurgitation
C. Aortic Stenosis
D. Mitral Stenosis
• Your patient describes chest pain that has been regularly showing up, generally following the
exercise of a specific duration/intensity. You know he was a smoker, is overweight with a poor diet,
and was recently shown to have hyperlipidemia through recent blood tests, The chest pain is most
likely:
An Intermittent claudication
A. Unstable angina
B. Stable Angina
C. Prinzmetal angina
• Which of the following is not a systemic disease that is associated with the Raynaud phenomenon?
A. Congestive heart failure
, B. Collagen vascular diseases such as scleroderma
C. Pulmonary hypertension
D. Myxedema or smoking
• The is an opening for venous drainage to empty into the right atrium:
A. Aortic Ostia
B. Circumflex vein
C. Great cardiac vein
D. Coronary sinus
• Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for varicose veins?
A. Age > 40 yrs
B. High estrogen levels (pregnancy or BCP)
C. Obesity
D. Prior injury in the vein/leg
E. All of the above are risk factors for varicose veins
• The cells of the cardiac conduction system (SA node, AV node, Purkinje fibers) have a unique
property that allows a steady leakage toward depolarization during the diastolic phase of the
cardiac cycle. This property is called:
A. Automaticity
B. Excitability
C. Refractory periods
D. Preload
E. Arterial chemoreceptors within the aortic arch and carotid arteries:
• The portion of troponin that binds the troponin complex to actin and is released into the
plasma during cardiac cell damage(and is a useful indicator of an acute MI) is troponin:
