Pulmonology

1. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

9. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

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

12. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

13. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

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

15. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

17. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

19. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

21. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

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

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

26. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

27. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

29. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

30. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

31. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

35. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

38. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

39. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

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

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

42. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

43. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

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

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

46. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

48. Hypercarbia is associated with:

49. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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