Pulmonology

1. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

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

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

5. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

7. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

8. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

11. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

12. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

14. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

16. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

17. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

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

21. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

23. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

24. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

25. Brassy cough is seen in:

26. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

27. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

28. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

29. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

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

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

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

34. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

35. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

38. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

39. Viral pneumonia may have:

40. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

41. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

44. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

45. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

46. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

47. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

49. All are features of hypercapnia except:

50. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is: