Pulmonology

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

2. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

3. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

5. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

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

7. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

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

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

11. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

13. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

14. All are features of hypercapnia except:

15. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

16. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

17. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

19. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

21. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

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

23. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

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

25. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

27. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

29. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

30. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

31. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

32. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

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

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

35. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

36. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

37. Bradypnoea is associated with:

38. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

40. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

41. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

42. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

43. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

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

47. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

50. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in: