Pulmonology

1. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

2. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

5. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

8. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

9. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

10. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

11. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

12. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

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

14. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

17. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

18. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

19. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

21. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

22. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

23. Asbestosis is not related to:

24. Which is false regarding emphysema?

25. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

26. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

27. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

30. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

31. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

34. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

35. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

38. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

39. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

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

43. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

44. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

45. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

46. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

49. Hypercarbia is associated with:

50. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by: