Pulmonology

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

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

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

4. Stridor is characteristically found in:

5. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

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

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

8. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

9. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

10. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

11. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

13. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

15. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

17. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

19. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

20. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

24. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

25. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

26. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

28. Bradypnoea is associated with:

29. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

31. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

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

33. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

34. Brassy cough is seen in:

35. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

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

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

38. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

39. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

40. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

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

44. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

45. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

46. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

47. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

48. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

49. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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