Pulmonology

1. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

2. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

5. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

6. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

8. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

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

10. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

12. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

13. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

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

18. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

20. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

21. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

23. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

24. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

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

28. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

29. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

30. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

31. Bradypnoea is associated with:

32. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

33. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

35. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

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

37. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

40. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

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

44. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

45. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

46. Emphysema is associated with all except:

47. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

48. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

49. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

50. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except: