Pulmonology

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

2. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

4. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

5. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

6. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

8. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

11. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

12. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

13. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

14. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

15. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

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

18. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

20. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

22. All are features of hypercapnia except:

23. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

24. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

25. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

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

27. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

29. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

31. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

32. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

33. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

34. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

35. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

36. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

45. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

46. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

47. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

48. Stridor is characteristically found in:

49. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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