Pulmonology

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

2. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

3. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

5. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

8. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

10. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

13. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

14. All are features of hypercapnia except:

15. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

16. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

17. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

18. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

19. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

20. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

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

22. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

23. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

24. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

25. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

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

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

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

29. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

30. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

32. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

34. Viral pneumonia may have:

35. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

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

37. Hypercarbia is associated with:

38. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

40. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

42. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

44. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

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

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

47. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

48. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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