Pulmonology

1. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

2. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

4. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

5. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

7. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

10. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

11. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

12. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

13. Bradypnoea is associated with:

14. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

15. Asbestosis is not related to:

16. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

17. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

18. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

19. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

20. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

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

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

23. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

25. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

30. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

33. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

36. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

38. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

40. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

41. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

42. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

44. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

45. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

46. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

47. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

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

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