Pulmonology

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

2. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

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

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

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

7. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

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

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

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

12. Clubbing is present in all except:

13. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

15. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

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

18. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

20. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

21. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

23. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

27. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

28. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

29. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

30. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

31. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

32. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

33. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

34. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

35. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

36. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

37. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

38. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

39. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

40. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

41. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

42. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

44. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

45. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

46. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

47. Stridor is characteristically found in:

48. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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