Gastroenterology

1. The commonest micro-organism responsible for cholangitis is:

2. All of the following produce hypergastrinemia except:

3. Carcinoid syndrome:

4. Serum alkaline phosphatase is increased in alt except:

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

6. Pyrosis is better known as:

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

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

9. All of the following produce invasive diarrhoea except:

10. All of the following produce “sub-total villous atrophy’ except:

11. Which is the most sensitive test to diagnose hepatopulmonary syndrome?

12. Gluten-induced enteropathy is strongly associated with:

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

14. Which vitamin deficiency is commonly seen in Crohn’s disease?

15. Which of the following is false regarding pernicious anaemia?

16. The commonest type of oral malignancy is:

17. Venous prominence present in the upper abdomen with direction of flow towards pelvis suggests:

18. Tropical sprue may be associated with all except:

19. The commonest cause of pancreatic calcification is:

20. Pseudomembranous colitis is not produced by:

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

22. Incidence of stress ulcers in acutely traumatised patients is:

23. Treatment of peptic ulcers with magnesium hydroxide is characterised by:

24. Minimal fluid required to have classical shifting dullness in ascites is:

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

26. Continued infectivity in HBV infection is diagnosed by:

27. Commonest cause of antral gastritis is:

28. All of the following may be associated with diarrhoea except:

29. Mucosal immunity is mainly due to:

30. Which organ does not move at all with respiration?

31. Lactose intolerance with lactase deficiency may be present in all except:

32. Normal faecal fat is defined as:

33. Auto-vagotomy may be observed in:

34. All of the following are true regarding acute mesenteric vascular occlusion except:

35. A patient is having an isolated elevation of serum alkaline phosphatase. The next test to be performed is:

36. The most common and most specific radiological feature in barium meal follow-through in a patient with malabsorption is:

37. Hyperdefaecation is found in all except:

38. A patient with severe malabsorption having fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, sacroiliitis and increased skin pigmentation is probably suffering from:

39. Normal portal venous pressure is:

40. Which of the following is false regarding cholera?

41. Which is true regarding rapidly shrinking liver in fulminant hepatic failure?

42. Which of the following may develop into intestinal lymphoma?

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

44. Pregnancy predisposes to all except:

45. Which of the following bile acids is virtually absent in advanced cirrhosis of liver?

46. All of the following may be the aetiology of Budd-Chiari syndrome except:

47. All are causes of chylous ascites except:

48. Giardia lamblia infestation produces a syndrome mimicking:

49. Gum hypertrophy is not a feature of:

50. Weil’s disease is associated with: