Pulmonology

1. Brassy cough is seen in:

2. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

4. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

7. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

8. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

10. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

11. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

12. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

13. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

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

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

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

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

19. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

20. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

23. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

24. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

25. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

26. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

27. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

30. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

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

32. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

34. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

35. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

36. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

37. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

40. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

41. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

42. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

44. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

46. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

47. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

48. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

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

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