Rheumatology

1. Which of the following is commonly involved in Paget’s disease?

2. CREST syndrome is an aggregation of calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia and __?

3. Raynaud’s phenomenon is not a feature of:

4. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

5. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

6. TNF-antagonist used in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is:

7. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

8. Anti-cytokine therapy is usually not associated with:

9. Positive ‘Dagger sign’ in X-ray of spine is a feature of:

10. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

11. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

12. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

13. HLA B-27 is usually detected in all except:

14. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

15. Still’s disease is classically associated with all except:

16. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

17. Extra-articular manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis are commonly associated with:

18. Sickle cell anaemia may be complicated by all except:

19. Which of the following is not associated with active SLE?

20. HLA-B27 tissue typing is not associated with:

21. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

22. Anti-RNP antibody is diagnostic of:

23. Lyme arthritis is:

24. Which of the following is false regarding anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody?

25. c-ANCA (antinuclear cytoplasmic antibody) is diagnostic of:

26. All are extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis except:

27. Still’s disease does not give rise to:

28. Which is not used to treat acute gouty arthritis?

29. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

30. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

31. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is least common in:

32. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

33. Rose-Waaler test (RF) is positive in rheumatoid arthritis in:

34. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

35. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

36. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

37. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

38. Which of the following is not an extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis?

39. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

40. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

41. Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) may develop in all except:

42. Pseudogout may result from all except:

43. All of the following indicate poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis except:

44. Gout may be treated by all except:

45. Infliximab is directed against:

46. Polarised light microscopy of synovial fluid in gout shows:

47. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

48. Which of the following conditions is not associated with carpal tunnel syndrome?

49. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

50. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to: