Pulmonology

1. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

4. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

5. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

6. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

8. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

11. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

12. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

13. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

14. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

17. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

18. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

20. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

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

24. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

25. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

26. Emphysema is associated with all except:

27. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

29. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

30. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

31. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

32. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

33. All are features of hypercapnia except:

34. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

35. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

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

38. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

39. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

41. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

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

43. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

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

45. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

46. Hypercarbia is associated with:

47. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

49. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

50. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in: