I love MCQs and infact I'm inspired by xenoMED team who are regularly bring out with the MCQs and the Soul's Clinical Questions and Answers initiations.
Therefore I will also post the question and answer on daily basis in this thread. Hope everyone of you will be benefited.
Here is my first MCQ on Rhematic Fever:
A 40-year-old woman has had several episodes of rheumatic fever as a child. She is currently afebrile and feels well, and has come to a hospital for monitoring echocardiography. Which of the following would be most likely to be seen in this patient's mitral valve?
A. Ballooning of valve leaflets
B. "Fish mouth" valve
C. Irregular beads of calcification in annulus
D. Large bulky vegetation with adjacent leaflet perforation
E. Tiny vegetations along line of closure of valve leaflet