Pulmonology

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

2. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

4. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

5. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

7. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

8. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

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

11. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

13. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

15. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

16. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

17. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

18. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

20. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

23. Bradypnoea is associated with:

24. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

25. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

26. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

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

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

29. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

31. Emphysema is associated with all except:

32. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

35. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

36. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

39. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

40. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

41. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

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

45. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

47. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

49. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

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