Pulmonology

1. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

3. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

4. Emphysema is associated with all except:

5. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

6. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

9. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

10. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

11. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

13. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

14. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

15. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

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

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

19. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

20. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

21. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

23. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

24. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

25. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

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

29. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

32. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

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

36. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

37. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

38. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

39. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

40. Bradypnoea is associated with:

41. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

42. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

43. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

44. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

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

46. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

47. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

48. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

50. Low voltage in ECG is seen in: