Gastroenterology

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

2. Which is true regarding irritable bowel syndrome?

3. The commonest cause of pancreatic calcification is:

4. Pseudomembranous colitis is not produced by:

5. All the drugs are given at some time in the treatment of carcinoid syndrome except:

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

7. The valvular heart disease common in carcinoid syndrome is:

8. Which of the following is not a recognized complication of ulcerative colitis?

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

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

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

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

13. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

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

15. Serum alkaline phosphatase level may be increased in all except:

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

17. Which organ does not move at all with respiration?

18. Which one of the following is false in hepatorenal syndrome?

19. Latent jaundice may be a feature of all except:

20. Primary biliary cirrhosis may be associated with all except:

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

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

23. Which indicates chronicity in hepatitis B virus infection?

24. Milk-alkali syndrome (Burnett’s syndrome) may lead to all except:

25. Hepatitis-like features may be seen in therapy with all except:

26. Acute pancreatitis is not associated with:

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

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

29. Predominant unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia is seen in all except:

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

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

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

33. Regarding angiodysplasia of colon, which one is false?

34. Regarding solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS), which of the following is false?

35. Crohn’s disease may produce all of the following except:

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

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

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

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

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

41. ‘Puddle sign’ detects a small amount of free fluid in peritoneal cavity which may be as low as:

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

43. Congenital hepatic fibrosis may be associated with:

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

45. ‘Sago spleen’ is found in:

46. Commonest cause of hepatoma is:

47. Intestinal lymphangiectasia is characterised by all except:

48. Pyloric stenosis may be complicated by:

49. Which of the following is false regarding cholera?

50. Chronic afferent loop syndrome producing obstruction may lead to: