Pulmonology

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

2. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

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

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

5. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

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

7. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

8. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

9. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

10. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

11. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

12. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

14. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

16. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

18. Which is false regarding emphysema?

19. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

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

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

22. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

23. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

24. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

27. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

28. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

29. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

32. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

33. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

35. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

36. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

37. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

39. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

40. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

41. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

42. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

43. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

45. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

46. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

48. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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