Pulmonology

1. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

2. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

4. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

5. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

6. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

7. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

8. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

9. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

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

13. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

15. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

16. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

18. Clubbing is present in all except:

19. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

20. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

22. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

24. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

25. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

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

27. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

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

30. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

31. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

32. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

35. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

37. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

38. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

40. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

41. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

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

43. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

44. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

45. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

47. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

49. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

50. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is: