Pulmonology

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

2. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

3. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

5. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

7. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

9. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

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

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

12. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

13. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

18. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

19. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

21. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

22. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

23. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

25. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

27. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

29. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

30. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

31. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

32. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

34. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

35. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

36. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

38. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

39. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

40. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

43. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

44. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

46. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

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

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

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