Pulmonology

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

2. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

3. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

5. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

7. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

8. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

9. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

10. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

11. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

12. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

14. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

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

18. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

19. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

20. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

21. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

22. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

23. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

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

25. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

26. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

27. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

28. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

29. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

30. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

31. Asbestosis is not related to:

32. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

34. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

35. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

36. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

37. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

45. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

46. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

48. Which is false regarding emphysema?

49. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

50. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of: