Gastroenterology

1. The definitive test for diagnosis of haemochromatosis is:

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

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

4. Hour-glass stomach is usually produced by:

5. Silvery stool signifies a lesion characteristic of:

6. Regarding Meckel’s diverticulum, which one is false?

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

8. Diarrhoea may be associated with all except:

9. Which of the following is not a cause of hyperamylasaemia?

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

11. All of the following are true in irritable bowel syndrome except:

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

13. All of the following produce hypergastrinemia except:

14. Which statement is false regarding duodenal ulcer?

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

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

17. The commonest hepatic lesion in haemochromatosis is:

18. Features of Mallory-Weiss syndrome comprise all except:

19. In HBV infection, which serological maker is present in the ‘window period’ as evidence of recent HBV infection:

20. Treatment modalities of Wilson’s disease include all except:

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

22. Constipation may develop from all except:

23. Which of the following is the most sensitive and test of choice in diagnosing cystic dud obstruction, i.e. acute cholecystitis?

24. Faecal assay of alpha1-antitrypsin clinches the diagnosis of:

25. Saint’s triad is the presence of gallstones, hiatal hernia and?

26. All of the following are examples of psychiatric illness associated with profound weight loss except:

27. Pseudomembranous colitis is not produced by:

28. Commonest cause of duodenal haematoma is:

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

30. Among the following drugs, which one is thought to be the safest in pregnancy?

31. The most specific treatment in coeliac sprue is:

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

33. Mucosal immunity is mainly due to:

34. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

35. A desire for defaecation is initiated by:

36. All of the following can be associated with obstructive jaundice except:

37. Mallory-Weiss syndrome is commonly seen accompanying:

38. Atypical chest pain of reflux oesophagitis is very often precipitated by:

39. Which of the following is not a variety of osmotic diarrhoea?

40. WBC in stool is not found in:

41. Diabetic diarrhoea may be encountered in the presence of:

42. Crohn’s disease is caused by:

43. Which endocrine disorder is associated with exudative ascites?

44. The commonest site of carcinoma of the stomach is:

45. Carcinoid syndrome is commonly produced, when the site of primary tumour is present in:

46. Oral contraceptive pills may have a hepatic lesion in the form of all except:

47. Treatment of choice in correcting anaemia of ‘blind loop syndrome’ is:

48. The commonest site of carcinoid tumour is:

49. Leptospirosis can be diagnosed during the 1st week of illness by:

50. Carbenoxolone sodium may be associated with all of the following features except: