Pulmonology

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

2. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

3. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

4. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

5. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

6. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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

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

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

11. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

12. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

13. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

14. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

15. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

16. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

17. Which is false regarding emphysema?

18. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

19. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

23. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

25. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

26. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

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

30. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

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

32. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

33. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

35. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

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

38. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

39. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

42. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

43. Emphysema is associated with all except:

44. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

47. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

49. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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