Pulmonology

1. All are features of hypercapnia except:

2. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

4. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

6. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

7. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

8. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

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

10. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

11. Which is false regarding emphysema?

12. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

13. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

14. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

17. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

18. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

19. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

20. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

21. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

27. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

28. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

30. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

31. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

32. Bradypnoea is associated with:

33. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

34. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

35. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

37. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

39. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

40. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

41. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

42. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

44. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

45. Stridor is characteristically found in:

46. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

48. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

49. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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