Pulmonology

1. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

2. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

3. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

5. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

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

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

8. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

9. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

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

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

14. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

15. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

16. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

17. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

19. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

21. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

22. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

23. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

24. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

27. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

29. Asbestosis is not related to:

30. Emphysema is associated with all except:

31. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

34. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

35. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

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

38. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

40. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

42. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

43. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

44. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

45. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

48. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

49. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

50. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except: