Pulmonology

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

2. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

3. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

4. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

5. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

7. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

8. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

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

10. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

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

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

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

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

16. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

17. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

18. Emphysema is associated with all except:

19. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

20. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

21. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

22. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

24. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

27. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

29. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

31. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

34. Brassy cough is seen in:

35. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

36. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

37. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

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

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

40. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

41. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

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

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

45. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

46. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

47. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

48. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

49. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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