Pulmonology

1. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

2. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

3. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

4. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

5. Asbestosis is not related to:

6. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

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

8. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

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

10. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

12. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

14. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

15. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

16. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

17. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

19. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

20. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

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

22. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

24. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

25. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

26. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

28. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

29. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

30. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

31. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

32. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

33. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

34. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

35. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

36. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

37. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

38. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

39. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

40. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

41. Stridor is characteristically found in:

42. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

43. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

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

46. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

47. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

48. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

50. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?