Pulmonology

1. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

2. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

3. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

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

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

6. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

8. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

10. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

11. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

12. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

14. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

15. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

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

19. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

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

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

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

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

26. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

28. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

30. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

31. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

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

33. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

34. Asbestosis is not related to:

35. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

37. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

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

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

42. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

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

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

45. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

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

47. Hypercarbia is associated with:

48. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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