Gastroenterology

1. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) may be produced by all except:

2. Which of the following infections may produce features like cardiospasm?

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

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

5. Anti-LKM1 antibodies (liver-kidney microsomes) are seen in infection with:

6. Hepatocellular jaundice does not result from:

7. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

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

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

10. Which indicates chronicity in hepatitis B virus infection?

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

12. Amino acids malabsorption is seen in:

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

14. All of the following may be associated with hypoglobulinaemia except:

15. The commonest cause of chronic relapsing pancreatitis is:

16. Predominant unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia is seen in all except:

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

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

19. Upper GI bleeding, angioid streaks in retina and yellowish skin papules indicate:

20. The inheritance of cystic fibrosis is:

21. Pseudomembranous colitis is best treated by:

22. Which light source produces best photodecomposition of bilirubin?

23. Pyrosis is better known as:

24. Tropical sprue may be associated with all except:

25. The most reliable method of measuring steatorrhoea is:

26. The presenting feature of non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis is:

27. Which of the following surgical procedures in peptic ulcers most commonly give rise to recurrent ulceration?

28. Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) is > 1.1 g/dl in all except:

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

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

31. Endopeptidases include all except:

32. The most common gastrointestinal disorder in a community is:

33. Characteristic of hepatic pre-coma is:

34. Intestinal lymphangiectasia is characterised by all except:

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

36. Which of the following does not produce secretory diarrhoea?

37. Calcification of spleen is seen in:

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

39. Peritonitis may be complicated by all except:

40. Which statement is false regarding duodenal ulcer?

41. Which of the following is not included in the classical triad of chronic pancreatitis?

42. Aerophagia is commonly found in all except:

43. Which of the following is false according to Ranson/Imrie criteria in acute pancreatitis for adversely affecting survival on admission?

44. Which of the following agent’s absorption is least affected in massive small bowel resection?

45. If an intestinal biopsy is not possible, the diagnosis of Whipple’s disease can be made by:

46. Crohn’s disease is caused by:

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

48. Gastric diverticula are:

49. Regarding non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), all are true except:

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