Pulmonology

1. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

2. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

3. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

4. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

5. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

6. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

7. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

8. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

9. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

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

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

14. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

16. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

17. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

18. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

19. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

20. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

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

22. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

23. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

25. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

26. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

28. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

30. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

32. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

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

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

35. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

38. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

39. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

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

43. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

44. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

46. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

47. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

49. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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