Pulmonology

1. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

5. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

6. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

7. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

8. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

9. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

10. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

11. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

12. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

14. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

15. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

16. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

17. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

18. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

21. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

22. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

24. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

26. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

27. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

28. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

29. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

30. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

31. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

33. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

34. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

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

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

37. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

40. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

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

42. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

43. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

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

45. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

46. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

47. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

48. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

49. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

50. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant: