Pulmonology

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

2. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

3. Brassy cough is seen in:

4. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

5. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

6. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

9. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

12. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

14. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

16. The drug of choice in high-altitude pulmonary oedema is:

17. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

19. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

20. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

21. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

22. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

24. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

26. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

27. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

29. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

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

35. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

36. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

37. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

38. Emphysema is associated with all except:

39. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

40. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

42. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

43. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

44. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

46. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

48. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

49. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

50. Farmer’s lung is caused by: