Pulmonology

1. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

3. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

4. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

6. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

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

8. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

9. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

10. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

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

13. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

15. Asbestosis is not related to:

16. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

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

19. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

21. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

22. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

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

24. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

26. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

27. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

28. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

30. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

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

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

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

34. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

35. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

37. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

39. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

40. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

41. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

42. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

43. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

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

45. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

48. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

49. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

50. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in: