Rheumatology

1. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

2. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

3. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

4. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

5. Terminal interphalangeal joint is classically involved in:

6. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

7. Penicillamine and colchicine both are used in the treatment of:

8. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

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

10. The viscosity of synovial fluid in osteoarthritis is:

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

12. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

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

14. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

15. If a patient with scleroderma with Raynaud’s phenomenon immerses their hand in cold water, the hand will:

16. 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:

17. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

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

19. Lyme arthritis is:

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

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

22. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

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

24. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

25. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

26. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

27. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

28. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

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

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

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

32. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

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

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

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

36. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

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

38. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

39. Oesophagus is most commonly involved by:

40. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

41. Osteosclerosis of the spine may be seen in all except:

42. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

43. Dystrophic calcinosis is classically seen in:

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

45. Eosinophilic fasciitis is associated with all except:

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

47. Fibromyalgia is characterised by all except:

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

49. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

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