Pulmonology

1. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

2. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

3. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

4. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

5. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

8. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

10. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

11. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

13. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

14. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

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

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

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

18. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

19. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

20. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

21. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

22. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

23. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

24. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

26. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

27. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

28. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

29. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

31. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

32. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

35. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

38. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

40. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

41. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

43. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

44. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

46. Asbestosis is not related to:

47. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

48. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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