Pulmonology

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

2. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

3. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

4. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

5. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

6. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

7. Emphysema is associated with all except:

8. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

9. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

10. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

11. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

12. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

13. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

16. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

17. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

18. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

19. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

20. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

21. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

22. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

23. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

24. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

25. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

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

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

28. Viral pneumonia may have:

29. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

31. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

32. Hypercarbia is associated with:

33. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

35. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

36. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

37. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

38. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

39. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

40. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

41. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

42. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

43. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

44. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

45. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

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

47. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

48. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

49. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

50. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in: