Gastroenterology

1. Ulcerative colitis involves the rectal mucosa in:

2. The Kayser-Fleischer (KF) ring is:

3. The presence of hepatic bruit over the liver suggests:

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

5. Incidence of gastric carcinoid is increased in all except:

6. Hyperdefaecation is found in all except:

7. Michaelis-Gutmann bodies are found in:

8. Pseudomembranous colitis is not produced by:

9. Zieve’s syndrome in alcoholic cirrhosis includes pain abdomen and haemolytic anaemia; the other component is:

10. Endopeptidases include all except:

11. Anti-saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody (ASCA) is classically present in:

12. Normally in health, the venous flow in abdominal superficial veins is:

13. Which one of the following is not an ocular complication of ulcerative colitis?

14. Hepatitis-like features may be seen in therapy with all except:

15. High transaminase levels may be found in all except:

16. The most specific treatment in coeliac sprue is:

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

18. Regarding angiodysplasia of colon, which one is false?

19. Which is not an indication of liver transplantation?

20. The most common cause of Budd-Chiari syndrome is:

21. All of the following may be associated with hyposplenism except:

22. Acute viral hepatitis may develop from all of the following except:

23. Gluten-free diet is beneficial in:

24. The commonest malignant tumour of the gallbladder is:

25. Which of the following has the highest acid secretory effect?

26. Which is true with respect to irritable bowel syndrome?

27. Which of the following is false regarding Gaucher’s disease?

28. Normal portal venous pressure is:

29. The most reliable screening test for patients suffering from malabsorption is:

30. The most helpful differentiating histological feature between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease by rectal biopsy is:

31. Gluten-induced enteropathy is strongly associated with:

32. All are characteristic features of Wilson’s disease except:

33. The weight of normal daily stool of a healthy adult is:

34. What percentage of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome are malignant?

35. The commonest cause of pancreatic calcification is:

36. All are examples of APUDomas except:

37. All are causes of chylous ascites except:

38. Pneumaturia is an established feature of:

39. Lower oesophageal sphincter is relaxed by:

40. The most reliable method of measuring steatorrhoea is:

41. Menetrier’s disease may have all of the following except:

42. All of the following may produce intestinal pseudo-obstruction except:

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

44. Commonest organism causing pyogenic liver abscess is:

45. The commonest cause of chronic relapsing pancreatitis is:

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

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

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

49. Protein-losing enteropathy maybe feature of all except:

50. Passage of a bolus of food through the oesophagus is the function of: