Hematology

1. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) may be seen in all except:

2. Vitamin C is used in low dose (3 mg/kg) in thalassaemia major as in high dose, it produces:

3. Transient myeloproliferative disorder of the newborn is commonly seen in association with:

4. Acanthosis nigricans may be associated with all except:

5. Burr cells in the blood are seen in:

6. Which of the following is not seen in hemolytic-uraemic syndrome?

7. All of the following produce microcytic anaemia except:

8. Which of the following is not associated with hypersplenism?

9. Circulating anticoagulants are found in:

10. Which of the following factors is unstable in stored blood?

11. The presence of anemia, jaundice and splenomegaly with increased mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) is seen in:

12. Thrombocytopenia is absent in:

13. Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) is a variety of:

14. Which of the following is not associated with a microangiopathic blood picture?

15. Which is a bad prognostic sign of Hodgkin’s disease?

16. Malignancy of which lineage is associated with autoimmune haemolytic anemia?

17. All of the following are true in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) except:

18. Serum vitamin B12 level is increased in:

19. Eosinophilia is a feature of:

20. Migratory thrombophlebitis is commonly due to:

21. Which isolated coagulation factor deficiency causes thrombosis?

22. Iron transport protein is:

23. Which of the following is not true in thrombasthenia?

24. The commonest cause of jaundice in thalassaemia is:

25. alpha-interferon is not beneficial in:

26. Erythropoietin is increased in all except:

27. Post-splenectomy peripheral blood picture does not contain:

28. Patients on aspirin will have:

29. Pancytopenia may develop from all except:

30. Which of the following is not true in polycythaemia vera?

31. Which test detects haemolytic anemia?

32. Peripheral blood picture is the most useful diagnostic aid in:

33. Leucocyte alkaline phosphatase (LAP) score is diminished in:

34. The best treatment modality in chronic myeloid leukaemia is:

35. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome does not feature:

36. Haemolytic anaemia is not produced by:

37. Lifespan of platelets is:

38. Which of the following anaemias is associated with splenomegaly?

39. In polycythaemia vera, which is not true?

40. Plummer-Vinson syndrome is not associated with:

41. All are examples of hypoplastic anaemia except:

42. Increased serum iron and reduced iron-binding capacity are features of:

43. Waldeyer’s ring does not include:

44. All are features of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia except:

45. All the following drugs produce methemoglobinaemia except:

46. Sezary syndrome is:

47. Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia commonly has all the features except:

48. In chronic granulomatous disease, which is false?

49. Among the following, the treatment of choice in hairy cell leukaemia is:

50. Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia is associated with: