Pulmonology

1. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

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

5. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

6. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

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

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

9. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

10. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

12. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

13. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

19. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

22. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

23. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

26. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

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

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

29. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

30. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

31. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

35. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

36. Emphysema is associated with all except:

37. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

39. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

40. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

41. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

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

43. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

44. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

46. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

48. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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