Pulmonology

1. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

2. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

3. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

4. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

5. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

6. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

7. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

8. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

9. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

10. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

11. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

12. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

13. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

14. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

15. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

16. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

17. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

18. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

19. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

20. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

21. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

22. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

23. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

24. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

25. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

26. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

27. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

28. Hypercarbia is associated with:

29. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

30. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

31. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

32. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

33. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

34. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

35. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

36. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

37. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

38. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

39. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

40. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

41. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

42. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

43. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

44. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

45. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

46. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

47. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

48. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

49. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

50. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?