Pulmonology

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

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

3. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

4. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

5. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

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

7. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

11. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

12. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

13. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

15. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

17. Hypercarbia is associated with:

18. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

19. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

20. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

21. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

22. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

23. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

24. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

25. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

26. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

28. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

29. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

31. Asbestosis is not related to:

32. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

33. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

35. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

36. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

37. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

38. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

40. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

41. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

42. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

43. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

45. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

47. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

48. Emphysema is associated with all except:

49. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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