Pulmonology

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

2. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

3. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

6. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

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

8. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

10. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

11. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

12. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

13. Brassy cough is seen in:

14. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

16. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

17. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

18. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

19. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

20. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

21. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

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

24. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

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

29. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

30. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

32. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

33. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

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

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

36. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

37. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

39. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

41. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

42. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

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

45. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

47. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

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

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