NRE Medical Step I MCQs

Acute coronary syndrome is a clinical spectrum caused by acute myocardial ischaemia, including unstable angina and myocardial infarction.

Heart failure is a syndrome in which the heart cannot meet metabolic demands or does so only at elevated filling pressures.

Atrial fibrillation is a supraventricular arrhythmia with disorganised atrial activity and an irregularly irregular pulse.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disorder with variable and usually reversible airflow obstruction.

Cirrhosis is diffuse hepatic fibrosis with regenerative nodules and altered liver architecture.

Acute pancreatitis is acute pancreatic inflammation commonly presenting with severe epigastric pain and elevated pancreatic enzymes.

Bacterial meningitis is acute infection of the meninges requiring urgent antimicrobial treatment.

Ischaemic stroke is neurological deficit caused by interruption of cerebral blood flow due to arterial occlusion.

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory arthritis typically affecting small joints symmetrically.

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem autoimmune disease associated with diverse autoantibodies and organ involvement.

Pulmonary embolism is obstruction of pulmonary arteries, commonly by thrombus originating in deep veins.