Pulmonology

1. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

2. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

3. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

4. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

5. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

6. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

7. The drug of choice in high-altitude pulmonary oedema is:

8. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

9. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

10. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

11. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

12. Bradypnoea is associated with:

13. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

14. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

15. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

16. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

17. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

18. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

19. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

20. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

21. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

22. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

23. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

24. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

25. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

26. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

27. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

28. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

29. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

30. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

31. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

32. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

33. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

34. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

35. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

36. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

37. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

38. Clubbing is present in all except:

39. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

40. Stridor is characteristically found in:

41. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

42. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

43. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

44. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

45. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

46. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

47. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

48. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

49. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

50. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except: