Pulmonology

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

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

3. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

4. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

5. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

7. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

10. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

11. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

12. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

13. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

14. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

16. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

17. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

18. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

20. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

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

22. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

23. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

24. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

25. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

26. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

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

28. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

30. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

31. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

33. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

35. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

37. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

39. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

40. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

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

42. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

43. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

45. Clubbing is present in all except:

46. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

47. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

48. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

49. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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