Pulmonology

1. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

2. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

3. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

5. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

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

7. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

8. Emphysema is associated with all except:

9. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

12. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

13. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

14. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

16. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

17. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

18. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

19. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

20. Viral pneumonia may have:

21. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

22. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

23. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

25. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

26. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

28. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

29. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

30. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

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

34. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

35. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

37. Brassy cough is seen in:

38. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

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

42. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

43. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

44. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

47. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

49. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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