Pulmonology

1. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

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

3. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

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

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

6. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

7. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

9. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

12. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

14. All are features of hypercapnia except:

15. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

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

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

18. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

20. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

21. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

22. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

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

25. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

27. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

28. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

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

30. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

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

35. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

36. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

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

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

41. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

43. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

44. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

45. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

47. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

49. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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