Gastroenterology

1. If an intestinal biopsy is not possible, the diagnosis of Whipple’s disease can be made by:

2. Giardia lamblia infestation produces a syndrome mimicking:

3. Chronic gastritis may be associated with all except:

4. Endopeptidases include all except:

5. Gluten-induced enteropathy is strongly associated with:

6. Pyloric stenosis is commonly associated. with all except:

7. Primary biliary cirrhosis may be associated with all except:

8. All of the following are methods for detection of H. pylori except:

9. The major site of bile salt absorption is:

10. Raspberry tongue is found in:

11. Intestinal lymphangiectasia is characterised by all except:

12. Jejuno-ileal bypass surgery done for obesity may be complicated by all except:

13. All are recognised complications of inflammatory bowel disease except:

14. Upper GI bleeding, angioid streaks in retina and yellowish skin papules indicate:

15. The commonest extraintestinal complication of ulcerative colitis is:

16. Among all of the following, which is the most characteristic feature regarding intestinal ischaemia?

17. Which is true regarding Vincent’s angina?

18. Acid peptic disease is rarely found in:

19. Peritonitis may be complicated by all except:

20. Which one is false in granulomatous hepatitis?

21. All of the following protozoa! infections produce diarrhoea in a patient of AIDS except:

22. Features of gastric outlet obstruction produced by congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis develop in infants:

Burst abdomen commonly occurs on which post-op day of abdominal surgery?
A. 1st day B. 2nd day
C. 3rd day D. 7th day

24. Which part of the colonic carcinoma is very easily overlooked?

25. Which of the following does not give rise to haematemesis?

26. The presence of diverticulosis is most commonly seen in:

27. Silvery stool signifies a lesion characteristic of:

28. Indicators of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhosis include all except:

29. Which indicates chronicity in hepatitis B virus infection?

30. A child having diarrhoea later complicated by the appearance of rash and petechiae. The most probable diagnosis is:

31. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

32. Which of the following infections may produce features like cardiospasm?

33. Which of the following clotting factors retains its activity in hepatocellular disorder?

34. Milk-alkali syndrome (Burnett’s syndrome) may lead to all except:

35. In gastroparesis, the following drugs are helpful except:

36. Regarding carcinoma of oesophagus, all are true except:

37. Serum alkaline phosphatase level may be increased in all except:

38. A ‘white patch’ in the throat may be due to all except:

39. Gastric diverticula are:

40. Whipple’s triad is found in:

41. Chronic active hepatitis may have all the following features except:

42. Spider naevi:

43. Malignant potential is least in:

44. Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) is > 1.1 g/dl in all except:

45. Auto-vagotomy may be observed in:

46. Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis may be associated with:

47. Secretin is produced in largest quantities in:

48. Crohn’s disease may produce all of the following except:

49. Hyperdefaecation is found in all except:

50. Regarding ischaemic colitis, which one is true?