Pulmonology

1. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

3. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

4. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

5. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

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

7. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

8. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

9. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

10. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

11. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

12. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

13. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

15. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

16. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

17. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

18. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

19. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

22. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

24. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

25. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

26. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

28. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

29. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

30. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

31. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

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

33. The drug of choice in high-altitude pulmonary oedema is:

34. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

35. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

38. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

39. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

40. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

41. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

42. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

43. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

44. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

45. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

47. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

48. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

49. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

50. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in: