Pulmonology

1. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

2. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

3. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

4. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

6. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

7. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

8. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

9. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

10. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

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

15. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

16. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

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

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

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

21. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

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

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

24. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

25. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

27. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

28. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

30. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

32. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

33. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

35. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

36. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

37. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

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

40. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

43. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

45. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

46. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

47. Hypercarbia is associated with:

48. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

49. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

50. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?