Pulmonology

1. All are features of hypercapnia except:

2. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

3. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

4. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

5. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

7. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

8. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

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

11. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

12. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

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

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

24. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

25. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

28. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

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

34. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

35. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

36. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

37. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

40. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

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

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

43. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

45. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

46. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

47. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

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

50. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in: