Pulmonology

1. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

3. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

4. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

5. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

6. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

8. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

9. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

10. Bradypnoea is associated with:

11. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

12. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

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

14. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

15. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

16. Clubbing is present in all except:

17. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

19. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

21. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

23. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

24. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

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

28. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

29. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

30. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

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

33. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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

36. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

38. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

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

42. All are features of hypercapnia except:

43. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

44. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

45. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

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

50. Hypercarbia is associated with: