Pulmonology

1. Stridor is characteristically found in:

2. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

5. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

6. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

8. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

10. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

12. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

14. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

15. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

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

19. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

20. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

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

24. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

25. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

27. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

31. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

33. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

34. Clubbing is present in all except:

35. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

36. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

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

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

40. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

41. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

42. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

44. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

47. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

48. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

49. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

50. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in: