Pulmonology

1. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

3. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

4. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

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

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

7. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

8. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

10. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

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

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

13. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

15. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

16. Viral pneumonia may have:

17. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

20. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

22. Bradypnoea is associated with:

23. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

24. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

25. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

26. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

28. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

29. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

30. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

31. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

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

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

35. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

36. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

38. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

40. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

41. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

43. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

45. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

46. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

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

48. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

49. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

50. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in: