Pulmonology

1. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

4. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

5. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

6. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

8. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

10. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

11. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

12. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

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

14. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

15. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

16. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

17. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

18. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

19. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

20. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

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

24. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

25. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

27. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

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

29. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

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

33. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

34. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

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

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

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

39. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

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

41. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

42. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

44. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

45. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

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

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

50. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is: