Pulmonology

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

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

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

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

5. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

6. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

7. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

8. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

9. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

10. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

11. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

13. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

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

15. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

16. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

17. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

18. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

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

21. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

22. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

23. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

25. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

27. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

28. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

30. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

31. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

32. Viral pneumonia may have:

33. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

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

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

37. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

39. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

42. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

43. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

46. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

47. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

48. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

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

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