Pulmonology

1. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

2. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

3. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

6. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

7. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

8. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

9. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

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

13. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

14. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

15. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

16. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

18. The drug of choice in high-altitude pulmonary oedema is:

19. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

21. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

24. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

25. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

27. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

28. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

29. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

31. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

34. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

36. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

39. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

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

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

44. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

45. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

47. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

49. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

50. Amphoric breath sound is found in: