Pulmonology

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

2. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

3. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

4. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

7. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

8. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

9. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

10. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

11. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

14. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

17. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

19. Hypercarbia is associated with:

20. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

21. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

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

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

25. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

27. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

28. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

33. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

34. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

36. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

37. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

38. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

40. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

41. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

42. Viral pneumonia may have:

43. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

45. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

46. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

47. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

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

49. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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