Pulmonology

1. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

2. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

3. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

5. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

6. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

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

8. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

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

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

12. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

13. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

14. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

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

16. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

19. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

20. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

21. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

22. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

23. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

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

25. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

27. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

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

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

31. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

35. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

38. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

41. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

44. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

45. All are features of hypercapnia except:

46. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

47. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

48. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

50. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by: