Pulmonology

1. Hypercarbia is associated with:

2. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

4. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

5. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

6. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

8. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

10. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

11. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

12. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

13. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

15. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

16. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

17. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

18. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

19. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

22. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

25. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

28. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

29. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

32. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

34. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

35. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

37. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

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

39. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

40. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

41. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

42. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

43. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

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

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

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

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

49. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

50. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is: