Pulmonology

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

2. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

3. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

4. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

6. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

7. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

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

9. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

10. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

11. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

12. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

14. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

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

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

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

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

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

20. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

23. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

24. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

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

27. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

29. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

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

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

34. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

35. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

36. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

37. Viral pneumonia may have:

38. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

39. Clubbing is present in all except:

40. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

43. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

44. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

45. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

47. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

48. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

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