Pulmonology

1. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

2. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

3. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

4. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

5. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

7. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

16. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

17. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

25. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

29. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

30. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

31. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

34. Stridor is characteristically found in:

35. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

36. Clubbing is present in all except:

37. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

38. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

40. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

42. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

43. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

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

47. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

48. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

49. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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