Pulmonology

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

2. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

3. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

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

6. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

9. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

11. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

12. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

13. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

15. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

16. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

18. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

20. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

21. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

22. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

24. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

26. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

28. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

30. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

31. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

32. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

33. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

35. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

36. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

38. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

39. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

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

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

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

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

44. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

46. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

47. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

48. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

49. Asbestosis is not related to:

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