Rheumatology

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

2. Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) may develop in all except:

3. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

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

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

6. Infliximab is directed against:

7. Myopathy may develop from all except:

8. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

9. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

10. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

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

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

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

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

15. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

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

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

18. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

19. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

20. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

21. All are characteristic features of DLE except:

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

23. 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:

24. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

25. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

26. Oesophagus is most commonly involved by:

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

28. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

29. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

30. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

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

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

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

34. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in:

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

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

37. Which is a recognised pulmonary complication of SLE?

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

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

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

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

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

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

44. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

45. HBsAg may be present in which vasculitis?

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

47. False-positive serological test (VDRL) persisting for 6 months is seen in all except:

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

49. Pseudogout may result from all except:

50. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except: