Pulmonology

1. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

4. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

5. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

8. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

9. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

10. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

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

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

14. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

15. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

16. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

17. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

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

22. Asbestosis is not related to:

23. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

31. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

32. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

34. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

35. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

36. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

38. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

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

40. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

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

42. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

43. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

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

47. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

50. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in: