Pulmonology

1. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

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

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

4. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

5. Bradypnoea is associated with:

6. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

7. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

8. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

10. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

12. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

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

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

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

18. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

19. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

22. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

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

26. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

27. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

30. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

35. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

36. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

37. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

39. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

41. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

42. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

43. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

44. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

45. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

46. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

48. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

49. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

50. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is: