Pulmonology

1. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

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

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

4. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

7. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

9. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

10. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

13. Which is false regarding emphysema?

14. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

15. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

17. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

19. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

20. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

21. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

22. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

23. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

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

25. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

28. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

30. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

31. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

33. Stridor is characteristically found in:

34. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

35. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

36. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

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

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

40. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

42. All are features of hypercapnia except:

43. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

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

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

48. Emphysema is associated with all except:

49. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

50. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except: