Rheumatology

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

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

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

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

5. Infliximab is directed against:

6. Colchicine may be used in all except:

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

8. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

9. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

10. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

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

12. Which type of collagen is abundant in bones?

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

14. The viscosity of synovial fluid in osteoarthritis is:

15. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

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

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

18. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

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

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

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

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

23. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

24. Which of the following is not a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD)?

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

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

27. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

28. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

29. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

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

31. Rheumatoid factor in SLE is positive in:

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

33. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

34. Anti-Jo 1 antibody is diagnostic of:

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

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

37. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

38. Gout may be treated by all except:

39. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

40. Which is a recognised pulmonary complication of SLE?

41. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

42. Which of the following is not a recognised complication of SLE?

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

44. Oesophagus is most commonly involved by:

45. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

46. 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:

47. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

48. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

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

50. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in: