Pulmonology

1. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

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

5. All are features of hypercapnia except:

6. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

9. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

10. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

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

12. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

13. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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

16. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

17. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

19. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

20. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

22. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

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

24. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

26. Bradypnoea is associated with:

27. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

29. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

30. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

31. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

32. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

33. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

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

36. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

37. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

39. Clubbing is present in all except:

40. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

41. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

42. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

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

46. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

48. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

49. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

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