Pulmonology

1. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

2. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

3. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

4. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

5. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

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

8. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

9. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

12. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

14. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

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

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

17. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

19. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

22. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

24. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

26. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

29. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

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

31. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

34. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

35. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

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

39. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

41. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

43. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

44. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

45. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

47. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

48. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

50. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except: