Gastroenterology

1. Gluten-free diet is beneficial in:

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

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

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

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

6. Which of the following is not true in lupoid hepatitis?

7. ‘String sign’ in Crohn’s disease is due to:

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

9. Bentiromide test diagnoses?

10. Normal portal venous pressure is:

11. The single most important point which differentiates tropical sprue from coeliac sprue is:

12. Which of the following is false regarding cholera?

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

14. Botulism may be associated with all of the following except:

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

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

17. All are examples of APUDomas except:

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

19. Necrolytic migratory erythema is a feature of:

20. Hour-glass stomach is usually produced by:

21. Auto-vagotomy may be observed in:

22. Which one of the following originates from non-beta islet cell tumour of the pancreas?

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

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

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

26. The commonest extraintestinal complication of ulcerative colitis is:

27. All of the following may give rise to flat oral GTT and a normal IV GTT except:

28. Chronicity in hepatitis C virus infection is:

29. Mallory-Weiss syndrome is commonly seen accompanying:

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

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

32. The causative agent of tropical sprue is:

33. Congestive gastropathy in portal hypertension is best treated by:

34. The commonest cause of upper GI bleeding in an alcoholic is:

35. Giardia lamblia infestation produces a syndrome mimicking:

36. Carcinoid syndrome:

37. Which of the following surgeries is related to severe hepatocellular dysfunction?

38. Which is not true so far as definition of cirrhosis of liver is concerned?

39. The commonest type of pancreatic carcinoma is:

40. Pyrosis is better known as:

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

42. Hepatic rub may be found in:

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

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

45. Which of the following clotting factors is not produced in the liver?

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

47. Commonest cause of antral gastritis is:

48. Regarding cimetidine, all of the following are true except:

49. Carcinoma of oesophagus may be predisposed by alt except:

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