Pulmonology

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

2. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

3. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

5. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

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

9. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

10. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

11. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

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

14. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

15. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

16. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

17. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

18. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

20. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

21. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

23. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

24. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

25. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

28. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

30. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

31. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

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

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

35. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

37. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

40. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

43. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

44. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

45. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

47. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

49. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

50. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to: