Rheumatology

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

2. Which organ involvement does not occur in progressive systemic sclerosis?

3. Colchicine may be used in all except:

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

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

6. Kawasaki disease is associated with:

7. Dystrophic calcinosis is classically seen in:

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

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

10. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

11. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

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

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

14. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

18. Finkelstein’s test is positive in:

19. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

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

21. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

22. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

23. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

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

25. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

26. Rheumatoid arthritis patients confront an increased risk of developing all except:

27. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

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

29. Myopathy may develop from all except:

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

31. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

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

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

34. Which is a recognised pulmonary complication of SLE?

35. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

36. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

38. Pseudogout may result from all except:

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

40. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

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

42. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

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

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

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

46. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

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

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

49. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

50. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is: