Pulmonology

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

2. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

3. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

5. Asbestosis is not related to:

6. Stridor is characteristically found in:

7. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

10. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

12. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

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

15. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

18. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

19. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

20. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

21. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

22. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

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

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

25. Clubbing is present in all except:

26. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

27. Emphysema is associated with all except:

28. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

31. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

32. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

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

35. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

36. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

37. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

38. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

39. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

40. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

41. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

42. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

43. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

44. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

45. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

47. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

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