Pulmonology

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

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

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

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

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

6. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

7. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

8. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

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

10. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

11. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

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

14. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

17. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

19. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

20. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

21. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

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

25. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

27. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

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

29. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

30. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

31. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

32. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

33. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

35. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

36. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

38. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

41. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

42. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

43. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

44. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

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

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

47. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

48. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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