Rheumatology

1. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

2. 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:

3. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

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

5. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

6. The viscosity of synovial fluid in osteoarthritis is:

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

8. Gout may be treated by all except:

9. Oesophagus is most commonly involved by:

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

11. Infliximab is directed against:

12. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

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

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

15. Which of the following is recognised extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis?

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

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

18. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

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

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

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

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

23. Recurrent anterior uveitis is most characteristic of:

24. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

25. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

26. Myopathy may develop from all except:

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

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

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

30. Hyperostosis is seen in all except:

31. Syndesmophytes are seen in all except:

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

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

34. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

35. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

36. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

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

38. Eosinophilic fasciitis does not give rise to:

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

40. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

41. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

42. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

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

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

45. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

46. Clutton’s joint is characteristic of:

47. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

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

49. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

50. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with: