Pulmonology

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

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

3. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

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

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

8. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

11. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

13. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

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

15. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

17. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

18. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

20. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

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

24. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

25. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

26. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

27. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

29. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

30. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

31. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

32. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

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

35. All are features of hypercapnia except:

36. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

38. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

39. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

41. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

42. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

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

46. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

47. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

48. Viral pneumonia may have:

49. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

50. The earliest sign of clubbing is: