Pulmonology

1. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

2. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

3. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

6. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

7. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

8. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

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

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

13. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

15. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

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

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

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

20. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

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

24. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

25. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

26. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

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

28. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

29. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

30. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

31. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

32. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

34. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. All are features of hypercapnia except:

44. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

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

47. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

48. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

49. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

50. Lung abscess is not a complication of: