Pulmonology

1. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

3. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

4. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

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

6. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

9. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

11. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

12. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

13. Clubbing is present in all except:

14. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

15. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

16. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

17. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

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

19. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

20. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

21. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

22. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

23. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

24. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

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

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

27. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

29. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

30. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

32. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

35. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

36. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

37. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

40. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

41. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

43. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

44. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

45. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

49. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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