Pulmonology

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

2. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

3. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

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

5. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

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

7. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

8. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

9. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

10. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

11. Which is false regarding emphysema?

12. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

13. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

14. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

15. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

16. All are features of hypercapnia except:

17. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

20. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

23. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

24. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

25. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

26. Bradypnoea is associated with:

27. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

30. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

33. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

35. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

37. Hypercarbia is associated with:

38. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

41. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

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

45. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

46. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

48. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

49. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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