Pulmonology

1. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

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

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

5. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

8. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

9. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

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

11. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

13. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

14. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

15. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

16. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

17. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

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

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

20. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

22. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

23. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

24. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

26. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

28. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

29. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

31. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

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

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

36. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

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

39. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

40. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

41. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

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

44. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

47. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

48. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

49. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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