Gastroenterology

1. Spider naevi:

2. All of the following are true regarding diverticulitis except:

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

4. Regarding H. pylori, which statement is false?

5. Achalasia cardia gives rise to all except:

6. Which ion is necessary for the active transport of sugars?

7. Hirschsprung’s disease is not manifested by:

8. Hour-glass stomach is usually produced by:

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

10. Which of the following is false regarding cholera?

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

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

13. Which of the following clotting factors retains its activity in hepatocellular disorder?

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

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

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

17. Peritonitis may be complicated by all except:

18. Menetrier’s disease may have all of the following except:

19. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

20. The commonest type of pancreatic carcinoma is:

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

22. Bentiromide test diagnoses?

23. Pregnancy predisposes to all except:

24. The definitive test for diagnosis of haemochromatosis is:

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

26. Whipple’s triad is found in:

27. NSAID-induced ulcers are best treated by:

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

29. Chronic gastritis may be associated with all except:

30. The most helpful differentiating histological feature between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease by rectal biopsy is:

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

32. Severe kwashiorkor may have a hepatic lesion in the form of:

33. In coeliac sprue, which of the following is non-deficient in the body?

34. Mallory-Weiss syndrome is commonly seen accompanying:

35. Normal faecal fat is defined as:

36. Features of gastric outlet obstruction produced by congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis develop in infants:

37. Which of the following is not effective to eradicate H. pylori?

38. Constipation may develop from all except:

39. Which of the following immunoglobulins may be depressed in Giardia lamblia infestation?

40. Elevation in 5-HIAA (5 hydroxy-indole acetic acid) in urine is found in all except:

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

42. Octreotide can be used in all except:

43. Acute viral hepatitis may develop from all of the following except:

44. Congenital hepatic fibrosis may be associated with:

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

46. Michaelis-Gutmann bodies are found in:

47. Which of the following is false regarding autoimmune hepatitis?

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

49. Which part of the colonic carcinoma is very easily overlooked?

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