Rheumatology

1. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

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

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

4. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

5. 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:

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

7. Heberden’s node is seen in:

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

9. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

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

11. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

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

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

14. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

15. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is least common in:

16. Lyme arthritis is:

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

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

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

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

21. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

22. The viscosity of synovial fluid in osteoarthritis is:

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

24. All are characteristic features of DLE except:

25. Anti-RNP antibody is diagnostic of:

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

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

28. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

29. Clutton’s joint is characteristic of:

30. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

31. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

33. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

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

35. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

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

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

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

39. Fibromyalgia is characterised by all except:

40. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

41. Rheumatoid factor in SLE is positive in:

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

43. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

44. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

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

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

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

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

49. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

50. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is: