Pulmonology

1. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

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

5. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

7. Clubbing is present in all except:

8. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

9. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

10. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

11. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

14. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

15. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

16. Bradypnoea is associated with:

17. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

18. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

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

22. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

23. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

24. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

25. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

26. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

28. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

29. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

30. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

32. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

34. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

35. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

38. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

40. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

42. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

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

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

45. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

49. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

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