Pulmonology

1. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

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

3. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

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

5. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

6. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

7. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

8. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

9. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

10. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

12. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

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

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

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

16. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

17. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

19. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

20. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

21. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

22. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

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

24. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

26. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

27. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

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

29. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

30. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

31. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

32. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

33. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

34. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

35. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

36. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

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

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

39. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

40. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

41. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

43. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

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

45. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

46. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

47. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

48. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

50. Viral pneumonia may have: