Pulmonology

1. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

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

5. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

8. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

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

12. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

14. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

15. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

16. Hypercarbia is associated with:

17. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

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

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

21. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

22. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

24. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

27. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

28. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

30. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

32. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

33. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

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

37. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

38. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

39. Clubbing is present in all except:

40. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

42. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

43. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

45. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

46. Emphysema is associated with all except:

47. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

48. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

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