Pulmonology

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

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

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

4. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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

7. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

8. Which is false regarding emphysema?

9. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

11. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

12. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

14. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

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

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

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

19. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

21. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

22. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

24. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

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

27. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

29. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

31. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

32. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

33. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

35. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

36. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

37. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

40. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

41. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

42. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

43. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

47. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

48. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

49. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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