Pulmonology

1. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

2. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

4. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

6. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

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

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

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

11. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

12. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

13. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

15. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

19. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

20. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

22. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

23. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

24. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

26. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

27. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

29. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

31. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

32. Stridor is characteristically found in:

33. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

35. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

36. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

37. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

39. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

40. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

41. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

42. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

43. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

44. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

45. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

47. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

49. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

50. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in: