Rheumatology

1. A 20-year woman has repeated attacks of myalgia, non-deforming arthralgia, pericarditis and pleural effusion for two years. The laboratory screening test should be:

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

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

4. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

5. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

6. Eosinophilic fasciitis does not give rise to:

7. Which of the following is usually not a skin lesion of SLE?

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

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

10. Fibromyalgia is characterised by all except:

11. Drug of choice for relieving pain in osteoarthritis is:

12. Pseudogout may result from all except:

13. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

14. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

15. Mask-like face is seen in all except:

16. All are true regarding causes of Dupuytren’s contracture except:

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

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

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

20. Which of the following is the specific antibody for SLE?

21. Multiple myeloma is associated with all of the following except:

22. Scleroderma-like lesion may be produced by all except:

23. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

24. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

25. Aseptic necrosis of bone is not a feature of:

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

27. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

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

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

30. Cytoid (colloid) bodies in the retina are recognised finding in:

31. Eosinophilic fasciitis is associated with all except:

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

33. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

34. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

35. Hyperostosis may be a complication of systemic therapy with:

36. Churg-Strauss syndrome commonly manifests as:

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

38. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in:

39. Osteomalacia may be produced by therapy with all except:

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

41. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

42. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

43. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

44. Which organ involvement is not included within the classic triad of Wegener’s granulomatosis?

45. In rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid factor is formed against:

46. Drug-induced SLE is not commonly associated with:

47. Kawasaki disease is associated with:

48. The viscosity of synovial fluid in osteoarthritis is:

49. Highest incidence of rheumatoid factor (RF) is found in:

50. Regarding drug-induced SLE, which is false?