Pulmonology

1. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

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

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

6. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

7. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

10. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

12. Stridor is characteristically found in:

13. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

14. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

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

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

18. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

19. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

20. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

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

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

25. Viral pneumonia may have:

26. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

27. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

28. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

29. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

30. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

31. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

32. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

33. Asbestosis is not related to:

34. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

35. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

36. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

37. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

38. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

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

41. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

42. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

44. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

46. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

47. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

48. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

49. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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