Pulmonology

1. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

2. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

3. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

4. Bradypnoea is associated with:

5. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

6. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

7. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

8. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

9. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

11. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

12. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

13. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

14. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

15. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

16. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

17. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

18. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

19. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

20. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

22. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

23. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

24. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

25. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

28. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

29. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

30. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

31. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

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

34. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

39. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

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

41. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

42. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

45. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

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

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

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

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