Pulmonology

1. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

2. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

3. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

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

7. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

8. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

9. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

10. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

11. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

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

13. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

14. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

17. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

18. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

19. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

21. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

22. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

23. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

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

26. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

27. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

28. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

31. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

32. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

33. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

35. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

36. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

37. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

38. Emphysema is associated with all except:

39. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

40. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

41. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

42. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

43. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

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

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

49. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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