Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter	58%
Ease of Revision	7 / 10

This is such a commonly encountered clinical topic, that it should be easy to remember the standard clinical stuff that can be asked.

Probably you can score 4 marks.

The questions have focused on 3 aspects of IHD

• Clinical findings
• Investigations
• Treatment methods and drugs

Not much has been asked about Risk factors or prevention

Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about

• Combination of antianginal drugs that should be avoided
• Wellen’s syndrome
• What is the dose of streptokinase used in thrombolytic therapy of MI?
• What is the mechanism of action of Ranolazine?
• Dressler syndrome
• Stable angina
• ECG findings – acute myocardial infarction
• Rose questionnaire
• MC arrhythmia after reperfusion of an occluded coronary artery by fibrinolytic therapy

• Troponins
• Drug-eluting​ stents used in PCI
• Contraindications for the use of fibrinolytic agents
• Prinzmetal (variant) angina
• Differential diagnosis of ST-segment elevation:
• NSTEMI
• Cardiac Biomarkers
• Named signs in IHD (Levine’s, Mayne’s )
• Characteristic features of stable angina
• Plasminogen activators