Pulmonology

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

2. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

3. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

4. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

7. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

8. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

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

11. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

12. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

13. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

14. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

15. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

16. Asbestosis is not related to:

17. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

18. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

20. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

21. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

24. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

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

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

27. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

28. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

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

33. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

34. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

35. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

37. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

40. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

42. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

43. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

44. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

45. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

46. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

47. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

48. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

49. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

50. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of: