Pulmonology

1. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

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

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

5. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

6. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

7. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

8. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

11. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

13. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

14. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

15. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

16. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

17. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

19. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

20. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

21. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

22. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

23. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

24. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

27. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

28. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

29. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

31. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

34. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

35. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

36. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

37. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

39. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

41. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

45. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

47. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

48. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

49. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

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