Gastroenterology

1. Which indicates chronicity in hepatitis B virus infection?

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

3. The commonest cause of pancreatic calcification is:

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

5. Superficial venous flow in portal hypertension is:

6. Manometric study of the lower oesophagus is important in all except:

7. Which of the following is not responsible for food poisoning?

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

9. Which is not a member of familial non-haemolytic hyperbilirubinaemia?

10. Hepatocellular jaundice does not result from:

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

12. Calcification of spleen is seen in:

13. Minimal free fluid in the abdomen that can be picked up by ultrasonography is:

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

15. Malabsorption may produce all of the following except:

16. All are recognised complications of acute viral hepatitis except:

17. Constipation may develop from all except:

18. Spider naevi:

19. Which of the following is false regarding acute appendicitis?

20. The major immunoglobulin in primary biliary cirrhosis is:

21. NSAID-induced ulcers are best treated by:

22. The most reliable method of measuring steatorrhoea is:

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

24. The commonest cause of metastasis to the wall of the stomach is:

25. Aluminium hydroxide as an antacid may have all characteristics except:

26. Which light source produces best photodecomposition of bilirubin?

27. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is classically diagnosed by:

28. Late dumping syndrome may be manifested by all except:

29. The definitive test for diagnosis of haemochromatosis is:

30. Steatorrhoea accompanying diabetes mellitus may be due to all except:

31. Which is true in halothane-induced. hepatitis?

32. The best way to diagnose Gilbert’s syndrome is:

33. Amino acids malabsorption is seen in:

34. All of the following may cause traveller’s diarrhoea except:

35. Bacillary dysentery can be differentiated from ulcerative colitis by:

36. Which of the following infections commonly produces hepatic granuloma?

37. All of the following are true regarding Whipple’s disease except:

38. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has all the advantages except:

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

40. Which site of gastric carcinoma is easily overlooked. by barium meal study?

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

42. The commonest cause of anaemia after peptic ulcer surgery is:

43. Which of the following is not a disorder of intestinal motility?

44. Tegaserod is used in:

45. The commonest cause of colonic obstruction is:

46. WBC in stool is not found in:

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

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

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

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