Pulmonology

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

2. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

3. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

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

5. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

6. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

7. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

9. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

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

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

13. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

14. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

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

17. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

19. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

20. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

23. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

24. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

25. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

26. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

27. Viral pneumonia may have:

28. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

29. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

32. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

34. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

36. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

37. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

39. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

42. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

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

44. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

45. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

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

47. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

48. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

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

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