Pulmonology

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

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

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

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

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

6. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

7. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

8. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

9. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

11. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

12. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

13. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

14. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

15. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

17. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

18. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

19. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

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

22. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

23. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

24. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

25. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

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

29. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

30. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

31. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

32. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

34. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

36. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

37. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

38. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

39. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

41. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

42. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

44. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

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

46. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

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

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

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