Pulmonology

1. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

3. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

5. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

6. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

7. Which is false regarding emphysema?

8. Asbestosis is not related to:

9. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

10. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

12. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

14. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

16. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

17. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

18. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

19. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

20. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

21. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

23. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

24. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

25. Hypercarbia is associated with:

26. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

28. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

29. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

31. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

32. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

33. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

34. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

35. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

36. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

37. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

39. All are features of hypercapnia except:

40. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

42. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

43. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

45. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

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

47. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

49. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

50. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?