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Pharmacology: Cardiovascular Drugs
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Pharmacology: Cardiovascular Drugs
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1. A 55-year-old patient currently receiving other drugs for another condition is to be started on diuretic therapy for mild heart failure. Thiazides are known to reduce the excretion of
2. Organic nitrates relax vascular smooth muscle by
3. Which of the following drugs is a potassium channel opener ?
4. Digitalis is given before quinidine in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, because digitalis increase A-V conduction and counteracts
5. Nitroglycerin ointment in clinical use is
6. After oral administration peak concentration of digoxin is reached in
7. In cardiac cells, adenosine
8. Which of the following groups of symptoms is most often associated with a patient who has right-sided heart failure?
9. Following drugs act on imidazoline receptor
10. In normal condition sequence of conduction of cardiac action potential is
11. Following is a phenothiazine analog with sodium channel blocking properties
12. Major beneficial effect of nitrates in classical angina is due to
13. Which of the following is not a calcium channel blocker?
14. Glyceryl trinitrate is generally taken by
15. Activation of prothrombin to thrombin is carried out by
16. Which one of the following drugs is used in the treatment of male impotence and activates prostaglandin E1 receptors?
17. Which of the following drugs is believed to improve microcirculation in peripheral vascular diseases by promoting RBC flexibility ?
18. A hypertensive patient has been using nifedipine for some time without untoward effects. If he experiences a rapidly developing enhancement of the antihypertensive effect of the drug, it is probably due to
19. A drug lacking vasodilator properties that is useful in angina is
20. Relationship between arterial blood pressure (BP), cardiac outpur (CO) and peripheral vascular resistance (PVR) can be described as
21. Aspirin in small doses (50 to 150 mg per day)
22. Which of the following is directly acting vascular smooth muscle relaxant ?
23. Which of the following antianginal drugs is most likely to produce tachycardia as a side effect ?
24. If a fibrinolytic drug is used for treatment of acute myocardial infarction, the adverse drug effect that is most likely to occur is
25. In patients with chronic granulomatous disease which of the following agents increases the synthesis of tumor necrosis factor, leading to activation of phagocytosis?