Pulmonology

1. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

3. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

5. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

7. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

8. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

9. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

10. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

12. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

14. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

16. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

18. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

20. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

22. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

24. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

25. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

27. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

28. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

31. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

32. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

33. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

36. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

38. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

39. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

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

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

44. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

46. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

47. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

49. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

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