General Medicine MCQs

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.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is persistent airflow limitation commonly related to smoking or noxious exposure.

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

Nephrotic syndrome is heavy proteinuria with hypoalbuminaemia, oedema and often hyperlipidaemia.

Nephritic syndrome is glomerular inflammation causing haematuria, reduced filtration and often hypertension.

Iron-deficiency anaemia is a microcytic anaemia caused by inadequate iron availability for haemoglobin synthesis.

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.