Pulmonology

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

2. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

4. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

6. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

7. Clubbing is present in all except:

8. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

9. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

10. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

13. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

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

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

17. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

20. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

22. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

24. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

25. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

26. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

28. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

29. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

30. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

33. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

34. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

36. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

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

38. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

39. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

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

42. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

43. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

44. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

47. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

48. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

49. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

50. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is: