Rheumatology

1. Polymyalgia rheumatica is not associated with:

2. Hyperostosis may be a complication of systemic therapy with:

3. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

4. Hyperostosis is seen in all except:

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

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

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

8. Anti-Jo 1 antibody is diagnostic of:

9. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

10. Kawasaki disease is associated with:

11. Pseudogout may result from all except:

12. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

13. All of the following produce mutilated fingers/toes except:

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

15. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in:

16. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

17. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

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

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

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

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

22. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

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

24. Colchicine may be used in all except:

25. Myopathy may develop from all except:

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

27. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

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

29. Lyme arthritis is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

36. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

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

38. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

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

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

41. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

43. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

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

45. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

46. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

47. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

48. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

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

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