Pulmonology

1. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

3. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

5. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

6. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

7. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

8. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

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

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

12. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

13. Hypercarbia is associated with:

14. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

16. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

17. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

18. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

19. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

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

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

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

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

26. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

28. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

30. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

31. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

32. Viral pneumonia may have:

33. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

34. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

35. Emphysema is associated with all except:

36. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

39. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

40. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

41. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

42. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

44. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

47. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

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

49. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

50. FEV1/FVC is decreased in: