Pulmonology

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

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

3. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

5. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

6. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

9. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

13. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

14. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

16. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

17. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

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

21. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

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

24. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

25. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

26. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

28. Emphysema is associated with all except:

29. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

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

31. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

32. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

33. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

34. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

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

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

37. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

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

41. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

50. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to: