Pulmonology

1. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

2. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

3. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

6. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

7. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

8. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

11. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

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

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

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

17. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

19. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

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

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

23. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

33. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

34. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

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

36. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

39. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

40. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

42. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

44. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

45. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

46. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

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

50. Asbestosis is not related to: