Pulmonology

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

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

3. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

4. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

5. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

8. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

9. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

10. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

12. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

13. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

14. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

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

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

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

18. All are features of hypercapnia except:

19. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

20. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

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

22. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

23. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

24. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

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

26. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

27. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

31. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

32. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

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

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

36. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

37. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

38. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

39. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

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

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

43. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

45. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

46. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

47. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

49. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

50. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except: