Pulmonology

1. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

3. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

5. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

8. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

9. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

10. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

11. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

12. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

13. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

14. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

15. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

16. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

18. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

20. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

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

24. Bradypnoea is associated with:

25. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

26. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

29. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

30. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

31. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

32. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

33. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

36. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

38. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

39. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

41. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

43. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

44. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

45. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

46. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

47. Stridor is characteristically found in:

48. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

49. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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