Rheumatology

1. Myopathy may develop from all except:

2. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

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

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

5. Hyperostosis is seen in all except:

6. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

7. Pseudogout (chondrocalcinosis) is associated with the deposition of crystals of:

8. Inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase is beneficial in the treatment of:

9. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

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

11. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a combination of SLE, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis and  __?

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

13. Sjogren’s syndrome may be associated with all except:

14. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

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

16. Dystrophic calcinosis is classically seen in:

17. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

18. Lyme arthritis is:

19. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

20. Syndesmophytes are seen in all except:

21. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

22. Which is true regarding synovial fluid analysis in osteoarthritis?

23. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

24. Eosinophilic fasciitis does not give rise to:

25. Which does not produce an erythematous butterfly-like lesion on face?

26. Eosinophilic fasciitis is associated with all except:

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

28. Which of the following usually presents as monoarthropathy?

29. Finkelstein’s test is positive in:

30. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

31. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

32. Avascular necrosis of bone is a recognised association in all except:

33. Classically which of the following does not produce polyarthralgia?

34. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

35. Which of the following is not a side effect of penicillamine?

36. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

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

38. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

39. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

40. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

41. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

42. False-positive serological test (VDRL) persisting for 6 months is seen in all except:

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

44. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

45. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

46. In Churg-Strauss syndrome, the principal organ involved is:

47. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

48. Which is not true in pleural disease of rheumatoid arthritis?

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

50. Bouchard’s nodes in osteoarthritis are seen in: